Will We Stay 50 Years In Afghanistan? Oct 16, 2009
Today's special operatives may track down and kill Osama bin Laden, as they did Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967. But the process of revolutionary nationalism will go on under the Taliban or its successors, as it did in Latin America, resulting in Evo Morales's 2005 election amid banners extolling Che's memory. (CBS News)
Soviet past lives in Moldova's tiny Trans-Dniester Oct 15, 2009
(AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky) NO IONLN ** FILE-This Nov. 7, 2008 file photo shows a woman fixing her hair in front of the pictures of Cuban revolutionary leader Che Guevara, and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Tiraspol, Trans-Dniester, which is a separatist region of Moldova. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky) NO IONLN ** FILE-This Nov. 7, 2008 file photo shows Trans-Dniestrian soldiers lining up during the annual Soviet style military parade remembering the October Revolution in Tiraspol,... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Soviet past,Russian future? Oct 14, 2009
A woman fixes her hair in front of the pictures of Cuban revolutionary leader Che Guevara and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Tiraspol, Trans-Dniester. . (MSNBC -- Travel)
Screen hero hack Oct 10, 2009
But even I was unprepared to find the man who was a screen idol as Robin Hood to a generation of movie-goers in the company of revolutionary pin-ups Fidel Castro and Che Guevara ... Flynn also reportedly had a brief encounter with Che Guevara, who did not recognise the bloated and faded film star when they met. (BBC News -- Americas)
Bolivian Leader Joins In Tribute To Che Guevara Oct 9, 2009
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Oct. 9, 2009. Bolivian President Joins In Ceremony Commemorating Guerrilla Leader Ernesto `Che' Guevara. (CBS News -- World)
Today In History Oct 8, 2009
1967, Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara was wounded and captured by the Bolivian army. (He was executed the next day. (Erie Times-News, PA)
* INTERVIEW: Film director fights for freedom of expression Oct 6, 2009
Burma VJ X Reporting From a Closed Country from Myanmar and the biopic about Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara are both stronger and more exciting. LT: How do you view the concerns of the Kaohsiung tourism industry and the attitude of the Kaohsiung City Government over the controversy. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Actor Benicio del Toro calls for Puerto Rico gov't to halt planned monkey-breeding center Oct 2, 2009
Fox 61 Breaking News. 8:06 PM EDT, October 1, 2009. (FOX61, CT)
Che - Parts 1 and 2 Oct 1, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper. Reviewed by Paul ByrnesOctober 1, 2009. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Liberal Lies About National Health Care, Part 5 Sep 30, 2009
Bill Clinton had run as an old-school, moderate Democrat and then, as soon as he got elected, immediately became Che Guevara. (What is it with all our black presidents and these bait-and-switch tactics. (Human Events Online)
Actions, not words Sep 30, 2009
He came into power as a revolutionary leader in the style of Che Guevara, committed to a pan-Arab ideal that was anti-Western. That ideology has not served the Libyans as well as they had hoped. (CNN -- World)
Director is loving life in the fast lane Sep 25, 2009
The two-part Che, about the Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara, is out next week. Then in December comes the deadpan comedy The Informant. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Food, water scarce inside embassy with Zelaya Sep 25, 2009
Deposed Honduran president faces arrest if he steps outside compound. Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya is seen in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa on Thursday. (MSNBC -- International)
Don’t make it mandatory Sep 25, 2009
") Bill Clinton had run as an old-school, moderate Democrat and then, as soon as he got elected, immediately became Che Guevara. (What is it with all our black presidents and these bait-and-switch tactics?) Instead of pursuing "mend it, don't end it" on welfare and no "middle-class tax hike" -- as Clinton promised during the campaign -- he raised taxes, signed ridiculous gun restrictions into law, enacted "midnight basketball" as the solution to urban crime, announced that he was putting gays in... (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Supporters hole up with ousted Honduran president Sep 24, 2009
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Chávez and the Latin Left: Muzzling the Media? Sep 23, 2009
Are the heirs of Che Guevara discarding their democratic credentials for authoritarian fiat. Are they going Cuban in response to economic difficulties that could loosen their holds on power. (Time.com)
Laguna Meth Interview Sep 23, 2009
When too many great minds are assassinated by CIA type entities (from JFK, MLK, RFK to Che Guevara and Paul Wellstone) the ripple effect is unbearable. When paper degrees saying you have knowledge and paper money backed by criminals are put on a higher level of priority than love, enlightenment and evolution/progress, society begins to rot and stagnate. (Suite101.com)
Del Toro leads the new Chevolutionary charge Sep 23, 2009
After years as the go-to guy for low-lifes and crazies, Benicio Del Toro plays revolutionary poster boy Che Guevara, writes Sheila Johnston ... But first he takes the lead in an epic about Che Guevara. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
* Cubans flock to free peace concert Sep 22, 2009
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Juanes' Peace Without Borders Concert Draws Crowd In Havana Sep 22, 2009
" He was appealing to the many Cuban exiles who, according to , had criticized the show because they feared it would appear to lend support to the authoritarian communist Castro regime. In an ominous and telling sign, a gigantic image of communist icon Che Guevara towered over the plaza where the concert was held, which has been the site of many long-winded political speeches from former leader Fidel Castro over the past 50 years. The crowd was reportedly filled mostly with young Cubans, many of... (VHI.com -- Music News)
Cuba's Mega–Rock Concert: A Win-Win for Juanes Sep 22, 2009
Critics accused him of helping legitimize the Castros; they argued that the brothers wouldn't have let the king of the Latin Grammys take over the same square beneath the massive visage of Che Guevara if they thought he was a threat to their rule. In the short run, at least, the Castros won p.r. points at home and abroad by letting Juanes and other Latin luminaries perform. (Time.com)
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News Story - Idaho State Journal. Cubans flock to peace concert. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
Cubans pack plaza for Juanes 'peace concert' Sep 21, 2009
Floridatoday - Cubans pack plaza for Juanes 'peace concert. Most read stories from USA TODAY. (Florida Today)
Obama: Cuban mega-concert doesn't hurt US outreach Sep 21, 2009
The pop singer met with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ahead of the concert, which was to take place under a huge banner of revolutionary leader Che Guevara. Obama says the United States is not a concert promoter. (WSVN-TV Miami, FL)
Read the story Sep 21, 2009
Cubans Flock To Havana 'Peace Concert' - CBS News. HAVANA, Sept. 20, 2009. (CBS News -- Evening News)
Havana Rocks, But Some Cuban Exiles Object Sep 21, 2009
MIAMI, Sept. 20, 2009. Cuban-Americans in Miami Protest as Latin Star Juanes Performs before Half a Million in Cuban Capital. (CBS News)
Cubans flock to iconic plaza for 'peace concert' Sep 21, 2009
Cubans flock to iconic plaza for 'peace concert. Amid some criticism, performer says the concert is about music, not politics. (MSNBC -- Music)
Cuban punk rocker Gorki Aguila visits US, hopes to return to Cuba despite criticism of Castros Sep 20, 2009
He said it was hard to believe the concert won't be political when it will be held under a massive likeness of Cuban revolutionary icon Che Guevara. "It's time to call things by name. The bad in our country has a name: It's called Fidel Castro. It's called Raul Castro," he said. (FOX61, CT)
Cuba gears up for mega-concert Sep 19, 2009
International singing star Juanes expected to draw hundreds of thousands. A worker walks on the stage that will host Sunday's "Peace Without Borders" concert in the Plaza of the Revolution in Havana, Cuba. (MSNBC -- Music)
John Malkovich faces "Disgrace" Sep 19, 2009
") Andrew O'Hehir Friday, Sept. 11, 2009 06:18 EDT The family who just said no Driven along by Al Gore, the fluctuating price of gasoline, a procession of dire news reports about mounting ecological catastrophe and a vague sense that our civilization is running out of time, most of us are trying to do at least a little about it. We downsize our vehicles, segregate aluminum from newspaper and remember (sometimes) to shut off the air conditioner when we're not home. And we're depressingly... (Salon)
Guerilla in the midst Sep 19, 2009
But first he takes the lead in an epic about Che Guevara. Del Toro charged at the role of the Argentine revolutionary 00004000 with all the mettle contained in his name (it's Spanish for bull). (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
In Havana, Singer Harry Belafonte wants more from Obama to improve US-Cuba relations Sep 19, 2009
PAUL HAVEN Associated Press Writer. 8:02 PM EDT, September 18, 2009. (FOX61, CT)
The somber beauty of air crash memorials Sep 18, 2009
Whom the visage belongs to is unclear, though according to the airline's communications department, it is definitely not the face of Old Man Winter, Johnny Cash or an age-progressed Che Guevara. According to an e-mail I received back in 2003, when this "controversy" was first discussed in this column, it's the face of a former Alaska Airlines employee. (Salon)
Choice of cartoon shows lack of ethics Sep 17, 2009
I refer, of course, to the cartoon which depicts a young, clean cut elementary school boy transformed into a Fidel Castro like monster wearing a Che Guevara tee shirt after hearing the speech of the President of the United States given to the nations school children. One of the missions of a free press is to promote fair and reasoned discourse. (Bogalusa Daily News, LA)
Obama's critics are challenging his right to govern Sep 15, 2009
The gun-toting protesters are overwhelmingly from the lunar right of the US political spectrum, as their banners and placards calling the President a socialist, a Communist or a Nazi, or comparing him with Hitler, Mao, or Che Guevara testify. But the prospect that 46 million uninsured Americans might finally gain health cover, contested issue though it be, is surely not their whole, or even their chief, motivation. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Cuba Mourns Fidel Revolutionary Comrade Sep 14, 2009
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Thousands pay respects to Cuban revolutionary hero Sep 14, 2009
President Raul Castro led the ceremony at Havana's Revolution Square, somberly placing a pink rose in front of a large photograph of Almeida. Flags flew at half-staff throughout the country. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Demonstrators attack Obama's 'socialist' reforms Sep 14, 2009
Protesters descended on Washington, some carrying placards lampooning President Barack Obama as a Che Guevara determined to take the US down a socialist path. Photo: AFP. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Cuba mourns comrade-in-arms of Castro Sep 13, 2009
Cuba mourns comrade-in-arms of Fidel Castro. One of the last giants of Cubas 1959 revolution dies of heart attack. (MSNBC -- International)
Juan Almeida Bosque, 82, comrade-in-arms of Fidel Castro Sep 13, 2009
Mr. Almeida, the Castro brothers, and Argentine-born Ernesto Che Guevara were among 16 who survived the landing, in which most of the rebels were killed by government troops. No one here gives up. (Boston Globe)
Cuban-American leader seeks new path Sep 13, 2009
As Cuba changes, US exile leader seeks new path - National Wire - fresnobee. Place an obit: (559) 441-6228. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Remembering 9/11: 'The acts of the terrorists only strengthened our belief in freedom' Sep 13, 2009
simplyme wrote on Sep 12, 2009 12:17 PM:" what a tragic day for the whole nation, I can't imagine the pain for the loved ones. As I drove around I noticed the flags out on main street at businesses. Flags at half mast. It was touching, but I was disappointed in people that have flags and didn't fly them. I feel this is a reminder that we need to stay in Afghanistan and fight against the Taliban, they are smart, strong and will die for their mission and we must stop them. BinLadin is worse than... (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Will Ecuador's Indians bankrupt Chevron? Sep 10, 2009
"Crude" sometimes seems like improbable fiction, a story co-authored by Charles Dickens and Che Guevara in which a former oilfield worker named Pablo Fajardo, who still lives in the two-room house where he grew up, is now the plaintiffs' lead attorney, threatening to bring the world's fifth-largest corporation to its knees. One of the story's many oddities is that Chevron was never involved in Ecuadoran oil exploration, or in the alleged systematic and deliberate discharge of oil sludge and... (Salon)
Pet Shop Boys remain ’80s kings Sep 7, 2009
Any band that can work In the back of my mind I heard distant feet/ Che Guevara and Debussy to a disco beat into a pop song deserves to strut about onstage in a king s crown and robe, and that is exactly what Tennant did as he sang Coldplay s Viva La Vida. The wonderfully cheeky moment was devoured by the crowd. (Boston Globe)
Movies about radicals have not always had a radical effect on viewers Sep 6, 2009
It wasn t a biography of Che Guevara, per se, but a meticulously staged thesis about why revolutions don t always work. Part of the reason, Soderbergh argues, is that Guevara thought of military strategies as being somewhat interchangeable. (Boston Globe)
Himalayan heights of disingenuousness Sep 5, 2009
To support his 21st-century model for development, Brahm quotes South American revolutionarily Che Guevara. At one particularly laughable juncture, Brahm calls on readers to use religion as an antidote to blind faith in flawed ideologies. (Asia Times Online)
Father, daughter pay tribute to family member with dance Sep 2, 2009
"He was executed by Che Guevara," Galvez said. Galvez, who began choreographing the dance at the beginning of the summer, said his father was an artist. (Florida Today)
Another view: A ‘bourgeois sport' Sep 2, 2009
Fidel Castro, the godfather of Chavez's socialist ambitions, had little use for the sport, either especially after he shot a much-publicized 150 against Che Guevara in 1961. Many of Cuba's finest pre-revolutionary golf courses had already been covered with military barracks. (Montana Standard, MT)
Death & Profit: The Art Of Dying Aug 31, 2009
Its first icon might have been Che Guevara, the Argentine heartthrob who was shot in Bolivia in 1967, setting off an eventual revolution in the T-shirt industry. But Alberto Korda made no royalties from his iconic photograph of Che as it was emblazoned across young chests from Greenwich Village to the Left Bank in Paris. (India Times, India)
Cuba condemns threats against Juanes over concert Aug 30, 2009
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No veterans center coming to Cochise County, VA says Aug 27, 2009
" So the troops can now look 'tres European," or at least like a combination of Che Guevara, Blackstone Rangers, Patty Hearst, and Maynard G. Krebs. If that's beyond you, look up who they were. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Juanes won't cancel Cuba show despite threats Aug 25, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009. (08-24) 04:00 PDT Havana. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Slain Che Guevara Soldiers Found? Aug 22, 2009
Slain Che Guevara Soldiers Found ... Slain Che Guevara Soldiers Found ... August 21, 2009 Five bodies found in Bolivia may be guerrilla soldiers killed four decades ago for their involvement with revolutionary leader Che Guevara, anthropologists claim. (National Geographic)
Juanes files police report after receiving threats over plans to perform concert in Cuba Aug 21, 2009
DAMIAN GRASS Associated Press Writer. 4:50 PM EDT, August 20, 2009. (FOX61, CT)
Flamingos are whatever color Obama says they are Aug 19, 2009
" Spoken like a true democrat party che guevara t shirt wearing hack. Thank you for your opinion. But please get good and mad. Shake your fist, even. Have one of them there kinniptions. Whatever. ". (return of) joe wrote on Aug 18, 2009 12:56 PM:" rjs...In reference to the question that you posed to me, it's called Keynesian theory, as opposed to Smith's theory. Both are viable economic theories that have practical uses.To think "either or" is ignorant, pure and simple. ". (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Why Gamescom 2009 = Big Deal Aug 18, 2009
Che Guevara and Lionhead Studios. right. (IGN PS2)
The Women Are Coming Aug 15, 2009
There in the open field, I saw another group of women, conversing with the ghosts of Che Guevara and Dr Kwame Nkrumah. These women were warriors. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Despite some strides, Cuba still suffers in its isolation Aug 15, 2009
Having visited several book stores, there is nothing to read unless you are interested in the life of Che Guevara or retrospectives on the Cuban Revolution. There are no kiosks, because there are no magazines or newspapers. (The Augusta Chronicle)
It's time to drop policies of the past, lift Cuba restrictions Aug 14, 2009
And the handsome Che Guevara, Castro's revolutionary partner killed in 1967 while trying to spread the revolution to Bolivia, peers from billboards and monuments. I spent four days in Havana last month with six other chiefs to U.S. senators from both political parties as a guest of the Center for Democracy in the Americas, a non-governmental organization advocating improved relations between the U.S. and Cuba. (Anchorage Daily News)
Full Story Aug 13, 2009
Exhibit photo shows healthier looking Fidel Castro - Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Channel 7 News Fox WSVN-TV. Wednesday, August 12, 2009. (WSVN-TV Miami, FL)
REBIRTH OF HAWAIIAN CULTURE Aug 10, 2009
"Kama'eleihiwa's mother recounted the infamous Massie case, in which Grace Fortescue, son-in-law Thomas Massie and two accomplices spent an hour with Gov. Lawrence Judd as punishment for kidnapping and murdering a Hawaiian man accused of raping Massie's wife Thalia. (A report by the Pinkerton Detective Agency later concluded that Thalia Massie had not been raped; charges against other defendants in the rape case were eventually dropped.)But while Kama'eleihiwa understood her mother's fears, they... (Honolulu Advertiser)
Juanes wants U.S. rockers to join him in Cuba Aug 5, 2009
Rocker Juanes to play concert in Havana - MUSIC- msnbc. Rocker Juanes to play concert in Havana. (MSNBC -- News)
Colombian rocker Juanes, Cuba's Rodriguez to play September 'Peace' concert in Cuban capital Aug 5, 2009
SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS, WILL WEISSERT Associated Press Writers. 7:52 PM EDT, August 4, 2009. (FOX61, CT)
Timeline: US-Cuba relations Aug 2, 2009
Page last updated at 15:37 GMT, Wednesday, 31 December 2008. The US has long sought the end of President Fidel Castro's regime and has had an economic embargo in place against Cuba since 1960. (BBC News -- Americas)
Will Ratings Drop Impede Obama's Agenda? Aug 1, 2009
He wants to follow in the footsteps of Che Guevara, Fidel and Chavez and, just like his predecessors, he couldn't care less what you think about his performance. Congres, well, that is another issue altogether, since they need their constituents' votes and will not anger them by playing bobbleheads to the annointed one. (CBS News -- Politics)
