It is a good thing that Cuban American actors are still fighting against Castro and his ilk. This passage is exactly why I think a shirt that has Che Guevara on it is the same thing as one having Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria or Mao on it.
I doubt Soderbergh or Stone or certainly the director’s wife ever spoke with Huber Matos, perhaps the most moving speaker at the Echo Park demonstration. In his nineties now, Matos was one of Fidel’s original comrades in the fight against Batista . But he made the mistake of voicing concern that the revolution was turning communist. For that, Che, in his typical fashion, wanted to put Matos in front of a firing squad (Al paredon!), but Fidel, not wanting to turn him into a martyr, intervened. Instead, the Caudillo incarcerated his former comrade for his views in the notorious prison at the Isle of Youth. There, Matos was tortured and had his cojones cut (quite literally) as he waited for twenty years to get out.
It would be interesting for a group of Anti-Castro Cubans to get red paint and throw it onto anyone wearing a Che shirt. It would server them right for supporting a confessed mass murderer and racist scumbag like Che.
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