Thursday, October 9, 2008

Today’s Video: Remembering Ché

On this day in 1967 famed rebel Ernesto “Ché” Guevara was shot and executed by Bolivian forces.

The former Argentine doctor’s legacy lives on all these years later; to some, he was a revered revolutionary who fought for the rights of the oppressed. Yet others will claim that he served as Fidel Castro’s puppet and represented the anti-democratic virtues of communism.

Love him or loathe him, the myth of Ché soldiers on; an example of this will be an upcoming biopic directed by Steven Soderbergh. The trailer to the film- which stars Benicio del Toro in the titular role- can be seen below:

Sources- The Latin Americanist, YouTube, Time, BBC News

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