In the movie Che, Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro plays an Argentine thrill seeker-cum-murderer who helped turn Cuba into a Stalinist state. That Argentine was Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, better known as “Che.” The movie is actually two films that total just under four and a half hours. Yet despite those 263 minutes of celluloid, important aspects of Guevara’s personality and deeds are omitted. Things like, you know, the truth.
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Che Guevara was a brutal killing machine. He administered the infamous prison in Cuba where thousands were sent to their death without trial. An admirer of Stalin, he would sign his letters Stalin II - a tribute to man who killed 66 million people and persecuted Jews, Homosexuals, Christians, and any critic of the state.
Che's diary has the entry: ""We don't need proof to execute a man. We only need proof that it's necessary to execute him. A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate."
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