Che Guevara Did Not Help the Oppressed or the Poor

  The political left including the prominent liberals in Hollywood portray Che Guevara as a Marxist who helped the poor and oppressed people in Latin America. The story goes that Yankee “imperialism” [America] oppressed the poor of Latin America with their corporations [back then, American corporations weren't owned by the US government and private American corporations were not a monolith; but let that pass] and their policies exploited the people of Latin America and oppressed the poor. The story, which is accepted by “serious” historians states that Che Guevara sought to fight for the oppressed and to help the poor. We keep on hearing that Che helped people; that he helped the poor. The story states that Che sought to overthrow governments oppressing them in order to liberate the poor and oppressed peoples who were supposedly being oppressed by those governments. The story, though it admits that Che was a Marxist, presents Che as a Guerrilla freedom fighter who sought to free the poor and oppressed and that he was traumatized by the alleged oppression the poor people and Latin American people had to endure thanks to the US and the regimes that Che sought to overthrow. There is virtually no truth in this story. Virtually, the only grain of truth in there is that Che was a Marxist. 

We keep on hearing fiery slogans that states that Che fought for the poor and the oppressed. We keep on seeing slogans that call for fighting oppression on Che T-shirts. The real story is the exact opposite. Che Guevara was a Communist mass murderer, who was responsible for the killing and torturing of thousands of people. The people he “fought” for were Communist oppressors. He defiantly “fought” for the Soviet Union and for Communist tyranny. In fact, Che defended the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. The Soviets suppressed the revolt by freedom fighters in Hungary. If Che was truly on the side of the oppressed, he would’ve supported the Hungarian revolts and opposed the Soviet invasion. But that wasn’t the case. During his time as a “fighter” in the July 26th movement, which was led by Fidel Castro, the future totalitarian Communist dictator of Cuba, Che defended the Soviet invasion of Hungary. His defense of the Soviet invasion got him into a real heated fight with another member of the July 26th movement. How can we know that? Humberto Fontova, the author of the eye-opening book “Exposing the real Che Guevara and the useful idiots who idolize him”, had an interview with that member’s brother on the fight between him and Che. Page 46 of his book even stated what the member’s brother said.