“Nothing could be more vicariously gratifying than Che Guevara’s disdain for material comfort and everyday desires,” read Time’s encomium to Che Guevara in 1999, hailing him among the “Heroes and Icon of the Century’ alongside, Anne Frank, Rosa Parks and Mother Theresa.
In fact, the domicile Che Guevara “acquired’’ in Havana was among the most luxurious in Cuba,” wrote Cuban journalist Antonio Llano Montes about the mansion Che Guevara “nationalized” (stole at Soviet gunpoint from rightful owner and moved into) in January 1959.
After a hard day at the office signing firing-squad warrants and blasting teenagers’ skulls apart with the coup-de-grace from his .45, during that busy January of 1959, Che Guevara retired to his new domicile just outside Havana on the pristine beachfront. Until a few weeks prior, it had belonged to Cuba’s most successful building contractor. Today, the area is reserved exclusively for tourists and Communist party members. Here’s the rest of the description of Che’s Havana mansion:
”The mansion had a boat dock, a huge swimming pool, seven bathrooms, a sauna, a massage salon and several television sets. One TV had been specially designed in the U.S. and had a screen ten feet wide and was operated by remote control (remember, this was 1959.) This was thought to be the only TV of its kind in Latin America. The mansion’s garden had a veritable jungle of imported plants, a pool with waterfall, ponds filled with exotic tropical fish and several bird houses filled with parrots and other exotic birds. The habitation was something out of A Thousand and One Nights.”
It was in this mansion early in 1959 that Soviet GRU agent Angel Ciutat tutored his eager pupil Che on the finer points of Stalinizing Cuba. Among the many excellent reasons for the reluctance of Castroites to loosen (even slightly) their Stalinist grip on power lies El Compromiso Sangriento. (The Blood Covenant.)
You see, amigos: most who have climbed to positions of authority in Castro’s regime did so as accomplices in mass-murder. In brief, at the beginning of the Stalinization of Cuba all Castroite military and police officer candidates were obligated to take their places as firing squad murderers, as explained by Soviet GRU officer Ciutat to the (probably) panting, salivating Che.
A brief aside: historically and almost universally, some members of a firing squad shot blanks, to assuage their conscience. But such assuaging would contradict the Castroite firing squads’ most vital purpose.
The point of the Blood Covenant was to bond the murderers, especially those in line for future regime leadership, with the murderous regime. The more shooters the more murderers. The more murderers thus manufactured the more people highly-motivated to resist any overthrow (or even modification) of their system. Karma, as they say–especially in the form Nuremberg justice– can be a real b*tch. Castroites wanted no part of it.
And after 16,000 firing-squad murders (according to the Black Book of Communism, not exactly a Cuban-exile tabloid) Cuba’s officer corps was plenty “bonded” to the regime.
Think about that for a second: a murderous policy handed down by a Soviet butcher and eagerly implemented by an Argentine psychopath of murdering Cuban patriots, instantly became government policy in newly “nationalist” Cuba, as much of the media-Democrat Complex still calls the Cuban revolution. Got it?
From his prison-cell window, a former Cuban freedom-fighter and political prisoner named Tito Rodriguez-Oltmans, watched this blood covenant in action. “Every evening the military cadets and regime officials would be bused in and armed with Belgian .308 caliber FALs as they lined up for the firing squad,” recalls Mr. Oltmans, a prisoner in La Cabana prison in the early 1960s. “As darkness fell the condemned patriot — shirtless and gagged — would be dragged to the execution wall and bound. The cadets and officials would line up only four meters in front of the patriot and all had loaded weapons.” … FUEGO!
Mr Rodriguez Oltmans somehow avoided death by a Castroite firing-squad but witnessed, at extremely close quarters, such a murder of one of his cellmates, a legless 21 year old boy named Tony Chao. A few months earlier Tony had been shot several times in the legs during a firefight with Castro’s Soviet-led troops. Only his injuries allowed the Castroites to capture Tony alive, only to amputate his shattered legs before murdering him.
Shortly before his murder Tony received a letter from his mother. “My dear son,” she counseled, as recalled by Mr Oltmans, “how often I’d warned you not to get involved in these things. But I knew my pleas were vain. You always demanded your freedom, Tony, even as a little boy. So I knew you’d never stand for communism. Well, Castro and Che finally caught you. Son, I love you with all my heart. My life is now shattered and will never be the same, but the only thing left now, Tony . . . is to die like a man.”
“FUEGO!” Mr Rodriguez-Oltmans then watched from his cell window as Che Guevara’s lackey yelled the command and the firing squad’s bullets shattered Tony’s crippled body, just as he’d reached the stake on crutches , lifted himself and stared resolutely at his murderers. But Che’s firing squads usually murdered a hero who was standing. The legless Tony presented an awkward target. So some of the volley went wild and missed the youngster. Time for the coup de grâce.
Normally it’s one .45 slug that shatters the skull. Mr Rodriguez-Oltmans recalled that Tony required . . . POW!-POW! . . . POW! — three. Seems the executioner’s hands were shaking pretty badly. But they finally managed. Castro and Che Guevara had another notch in their guns. Another enemy dispatched — bound and gagged as usual.
Compare Tony’s death to the arch-swine, arch-weasel and arch-coward Che Guevara’s capture. “Don’t shoot!” whimpered the arch-murderer to his Bolivian captors. “I’m Che! I’m worth more to you alive than dead!”
Then ask yourselves: whose face belongs on T-shirts worn by youth who fancy themselves, rebellious, freedom-loving and brave?
You have to wonder how some people can become so committed to evil and how others can celebrate them.
Our Communists, hiding in the Democratic Party, love Cuba and the Castro’s. They worship Che. They travel to see Paradise for themselves and they always come back with glowing reports. (Surely a product of brainwashing too blind to see the truth, or admit the truth.) STRANGELY, they always come back instead of staying in Paradise. Why come back to an evil Capitalist He!!hole, with evil leaders, and not stay for the FREEBIES, like their “superior healthcare system” according to Michael Moore who only goes to the Mayo Clinic in another hypocrisy.
LET’S TRADE Cuba’s Freedom protesters with our Communists/Democrats and all will be happy. Obama would love Che’s beach house and he could also live his dream of being President for Life! No election hassles there.
Fidel calls in Raul to his office: “Hey Hermano… you El Presidente now. Congrats.” See how easy and a Democratic Party dream of One-Party rule.
With the legalization/amnesty for thirty/forty million illegals, they would have the votes to live their Dream here which means our country’s direction, and its leaders, will be chosen by people who will always wave their flag while BURNING OURS! Democrats don’t care as long as they have the Power and before Biden leaves office, he will grant that amnesty and won’t care since millions will support it because they are in the One Party.
Right wing extreme maga republicans?
Fidel is a great friend of mine and Justin Trudeau reminds me of him every time I lick his boots.
Um, Mr. President . . .
Fidel has been dead for awhile now. Please try to not repeat the same embarrassing mistake you made back in September about deceased congresswoman Mrs. Walorsky.
Now, we agreed that your low octane I.Q. necessitates you saying as little as possible.
So, damn it; PLEASE stick to the written statements we’ve provided for once.
Mr. President.
I have another thick envelope from Hunter.
He was passed out on the floor again when I got there, but thankfully the package had “Big Guy” marked on it.
(Oh. And again, I’m so sorry about the time I mistook your envelope for the one addressed to Karine Jean-Pierre. It won’t happen again.)
Thanks Humberto, excellent article.
As a young boy I watched what was happening in Cuba as best I could through some tv, some newspapers. Never were reports like the ones Humberto brings to light ever appear. All we ever got were salvos of praise for the “revolution”. Even as a kid I knew something was skewed. The Bay of Pigs as Humberto details and the phony ” missile crisis” as we now know prove what fools Americans can be. Hope I live long enough to see an accounting for the terror Guevara and his assassins spewed.
Excellent History Lesson. If only they’d teach that in our schools.
FREEDOM PROTESTERS are now risking their lives against the Communist regime, with Raul still pulling the strings, and the world is hoping the protestors finally succeed BUT THEN THE ONLY HARDCORE COMMUNISTS that support Castro, ARE DEMOCRATS who quickly sided with the regime and then blaming the embargo even though the Soviets and Venezuela, others, supplied them.
University students are still going to Cuba on “fact-finding missions” but in order to be allowed and approved to go, you have to have your facts straight first. Independent travelers tell the real story of poverty, living in crumbling buildings, and lack of food and goods. The Black Market is thriving.
Here in Albuquerque, our Mayor Tim Keller’s wife Elizabeth, according to an Albuquerque Journal interview, STUDIED IN CUBA AND NICARAGUA and followed Che’s motorcycle journey throughout South America. EXCUSE ME, but it you’re going to be in Cuba longer than a tourist, AND TO STUDY THERE, you have to prove that you are not a spy or a counterrevolutionary and then must be vetted to prove that you ARE A COMMUNIST! She’s the radical that is really running the city. STRANGER YET, is she’s an employee of our Sandia National Laboratory so HOW could she pass an FBI background check with her past to Cuba, Nicaragua, and her activism in Hamas-related speeches wearing a neckerchief?
Continued: Suspicions are that Elizabeth Keller was vetted by a former University of NM Sociology professor from Cuba, “a New Marxist”, who locals say is in the DGI of Cuba who brags that he brought the internet to Cuba, surely only for Party members. He was also very active on short-wave radio on a nightly basis. (His antenna is now gone.)
The local Party for Socialism and Liberation, (PSL) whose leader is Joel Marcos Gallegos, whose bio on Facebook says, “Marxist-Leninist”, is a Che supporter and who organizes protests only used to recruit new members. At one UNM event by guest speaker Milo Yiannapolus, PSL showed up in ANTIFA COSTUMES ready for a fight. Police from four agencies surrounded the building, UNM destruction was taking place during the speech, NO POLICE REPORT BY THE STUDENT UNION BUILDING, (destruction of walls inside during Tomi Lahren’s speech in Sept. 2022, no police report even when police were being pushed around. Photos for proof.) and no reprimand by the Dean of Students in ALL cases with numerous Code of Conduct Rules broken!
DO PROFESSORS STILL HAVE CHE POSTERS ON THEIR WALLS? At the Peace and Justice Center, a large mural covers an outside wall with a small painting of Che’s famous pose.
IF THEY ONLY KNEW THE TRUTH… but then again, they don’t care. They’re a COMMUNIST CULT!
A touching story about a MAN and his rotten murderer.
Thank you, Mr Fontova for this article that gives comfort (that there are MEN like Tony Chao) and resolve (to defy any arch-swine and coward then, now and in future!)
There’s a restaurant in Bristol UK called Che Guevara, I am going to print this out and paste it on their window next time I’m there.
It closed because of the lockdown hysteria.
If it’s still standing, Steve should STILL paste it on the window. That way, passers-by can still get an education.
I use to wear a Che shirt ironically, I was a civilian employee of the Air Force, never even once did an officer or anyone challenge me. Although one day a fellow said ‘I like your Bob Marley tee shirt.
The vile Dumb-o-crat neo-communists and their Soviet, Chinese and Cuban forebears all covet wealth as much, if not more, than other people — they’re simply too lazy, shiftless, entitled and haughty to actually earn the money, honestly, through hard work, sweat and tears.
Theft and appropriation of the fruits of others’ labors is far easier than earning those fruits by one’s own labor.
This murderous pig should be on the same wall of subhuman monsters on which Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and Anthony Fauci are displayed.
On a Website for Artists I noticed an Artist had painted and wished to display a huge painting of Che and I noticed the Artist may have been somewhat Gay in his mannerism, so I posted on the Website that in FACT Che was a racist and hated Gay people…
I was banned for entering or posting on the Website ever again for stating an actual FACT…
Go figure.
If they were aware of what Che has said or him and Castro’s attempts to bomb the nations Department store chains they would burn their Che T-Shirts