CHE THE SHIT HONORED!

At a ceremony in Havana last week UNESCO (U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) honored Che Guevara by enshrining his writings in its hallowed “Memory of the World Register.” But not far from where this UNESCO/Guevara ceremony took place Cubans were being starved and beaten in torture chambers - 16,000 murdered in Guevara's time alone - for the crime of quoting the UN Declaration of Human Rights in public. The regime honored by UNESCO last week also holds the honor, according to the Paris-based “Reporters Without Borders,” of jailing and torturing the most journalists per capita on earth. Quote from Che Guevara: “My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any surrendered enemy that falls in my hands! We must keep our hatred alive and fan it to paroxysm!” This passage, by the way, comes from the very works enshrined and honored by UNESCO last week. (C) Humberto Fontova. (Photo: Copyright Control)