Che Guevara Congo Quotes

In the early 1960s, during the chaos after the end of Belgian colonial rule, the Congo was the world’s epicentre for mercenary activity. Soldiers of fortune came here to fight, at different times, for the government, against the government, against the United Nations, alongside the United Nations. Some of the mercenaries liked fighting so much they fought among themselves. There were those, like Che Guevara, who dressed up their involvement in ideological terms, arguing that it was part of an effort to spread socialist revolution, but many others (mostly, but not exclusively, white) had more venal motives – a passion for violence and loyalty that was transferable to whoever paid most.

Chavez was trained on radar in Louisiana by Edwin Wilson, who, following an illustrious career, became an infamous rogue CIA operative. Convicted in 1983 of illegally selling weapons to Libya, Wilson spent twenty-two years in prison, most of that time in solitary confinement. Wilson’s conviction was overturned and he was released from prison in 2004 when the US District Court Judge for the Southern District of Texas wrote a scathing opinion finding that the US Department of Justice and the CIA had covered up and withheld evidence in the case. In their zeal to prosecute, they effectively framed a guilty man.

In a letter he sent from the Congo in 1965, a letter full of nostalgia, he revealed what he had thought when he saw me the first time and in the days that followed. He described how he felt torn between his role as a strictly disciplined revolutionary and as an ordinary man with emotional and other needs.

la relación entre Fidel y el Che Guevara se deterioró hasta el punto en que el argentino prefirió arriesgar la vida en peligrosas misiones guerrilleras en países como el Congo o Bolivia que quedarse en Cuba enfrentado por Castro.

The old-fangled cynicism that the Clinton administration wanted to do away with made way for a new-fangled cynicism: humanitarian in its intentions, highly naive in its analyses and therefore disastrous in its consequences. There was no long-term vision. The confusion was great, the policy off the cuff. The backing for Rwanda and the rebels would unleash years of misery. Kabila must have found it rather amusing: thirty years after being assisted by Che Guevara, he was now suddenly receiving support from the Satan of Imperialism itself.

The image of Che Guevara adorn the walls of students’ bedrooms and T-shirts the world over. Looking out over the head of the viewer he cuts a Christ-like figure. In fact, he was a murdering racist psychopath. A direct descendent of the last viceroy of Peru, he hated Black people and American Indians almost as much as gringos. Only pure-blooded Spaniards were good enough for him – despite his Irish blood He happily shot his own men in the back of the head for minor infractions. In Havana he summarily executed so many allies as well as enemies in the football stadium, Taliban-style, Fidel Castro had to beg him to stop. He helped establish labour camps in Cuba. A Stalinist, he backed the bloody suppression of the Hungarian Uprising An Argentinian, he played host to dictator Juan Perón. A hardline Communist, he back-channelled with President Kennedy. During the Cuban missile crisis he urged a pre-emptive strike against the US, though America’s retaliation would have wiped Cuba from the map. “The Cuban people are willing to sacrifice themselves,” he said. Did anyone ask them? He alienated the Cubans, the Russians and the Chinese in turn. The people of the Congo are suffering from his bungled intervention to this day. The Communist Party in Bolivia did not want him there. Nor did any of the other Communist parties in the surrounding countries. When he was captured, the only people that tried to rescue him were the CIA. Still, he takes a great photograph.

former engineer turned militia leader whom I’d described as a mix of Che Guevara meets Somali pirates. I spent the bulk of my three weeks in eastern Congo at my hotel bar—the preferred meeting ground for aid workers and the militia leaders who were supposedly the source of all the troubles. The drinks at the hotel were as expensive as those at any bar in New York or London; the bartender told me that on most nights, if he wasn’t careful with his pours, he could empty nearly every bottle and would have nothing for the end of the week. “It’s the cocaine,” he said, which was cheap and all but worthless in the domestic market. Before leaving, I managed to spend several nights

Be realistic, demand the impossible." When I began reading about Che Guevara, I noticed something. Che said these words, but did he really live by them? It's a bit debatable. After leaving Cuba, it seems he didn't pay much attention to his own advice while continuing the guerrilla warfare in Congo, an African country. Che Guevara's experience in Congo ended in total disappointment from his perspective. The native fighters in the mountains of Congo were superstitious, lacked basic weapon handling skills, and had no interest in the left or socialism. Che tried to force a revolutionary situation out of these people but failed because he was attempting the impossible without being realistic. It turns out that without being realistic, aiming for the impossible does not lead to revolution. After failing in Congo, he then tried his luck in Bolivia, where he encountered different troubles. Again, he demanded the impossible but was not realistic, just like in Congo. In Bolivia, lacking local support, shouldn’t Che Guevara have known that a guerrilla struggle without public support had little chance of success? Yet, this is a question few wanted to ask, and some still do not wish to ask.