This was written by someone who actually witnessed the REAL Che firsthand, rather than a journalist
as is another Che book making the rounds. Published April 19, 2007

Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the mainstream media celebrate Ernesto .Che. Guevara as a saint,
a sex symbol, and a selfless martyr. But their ideas about Che . whose face adorns countless T-shirts
and posters . are based on the lies of Fidel Castro.s murderous dictatorship.

Che.s hipster fans are classic .useful idiots,. the name Stalin gave to foolish Westerners who parroted
his lies about communism. And their numbers will only increase after a new biopic is released this fall,
starring Benicio Del Toro.

But as Humberto Fontova reveals in this myth-shattering book, Che was actually a bloodthirsty executioner,
a military bumbler, a coward, and a hypocrite. In fact, Che can be called the godfather of modern terrorism.

Fontova reveals:

* How he longed to destroy New York City with nuclear missiles.
* How he persecuted gays, blacks, and religious people.
* How he loved material wealth and private luxuries, despite his image as an ascetic.

Are Che fans like Angelina Jolie, Jesse Jackson, Carlos Santana, and Johnny Depp too ignorant to realize
they.ve been duped? Or too anti-American to care?

Fontova gets right to the work of debunking familiar notions of Argentinean revolutionary Ernesto
"Che" Guevera; by the end of the preface, he's pinned 14,000 executions on Guevera and credited positive
portrayals to the public relations work of Castro and the laziness of biographers. The critical attack
continues throughout, combining the testimonies of former revolutionaries and Cuban refugees to assemble
a damning portrait of a man lauded by everyone from Jean-Paul Sartre to Jon Lee Anderson. According to
Fontova, the real Che was "a revolutionary Ringo Starr" who "fell in with the right bunch and rode their
coattails to world fame." Presenting a failed physician, an inept guerrilla and a hapless sycophant,
Fontova adds insult to injury by claiming Che was "deathly afraid to drive a motorcycle." Fontova's charged
language keeps things interesting, if occasionally dubious; midway through the book, after asserting that
Che enjoyed killing dogs, Fontova concedes that, "You might put down your book here and think, this has to
be propaganda." Though propaganda probably colors any consideration of this controversial figure, Fontova
makes a convincing case that, in the words of one former political prisoner, "There was something seriously
wrong with Che Guevera."

Humberto Fontova, who left Cuba in 1961 at age seven, has written for several magazines and is the author
of Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant. He has appeared on many radio and television shows and is active in
the Cuban American community. This is in epub format.

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