Galway monument champion Jim Fitzpatrick, creator of Che poster from picture of Che taken by Cuban intelligence agent Alberto Diaz-Gutierrez (Korda) and popularized worldwide by KGB agent I. Lavretsky
Jim Fitzpatrick on the cover of Mad Magazine
Che was my neighbor in Havana, and I actually saw him in the flesh several times. He lived in an opulent mansion just a few blocks from my very small house, and also ran the prison of La Cabaña, where some of my relatives ended up being tortured and murdered. Their crime? Voicing an opinion different from Che’s. Or, in the case of my uncle, simply having a son who voiced an opinion contrary to Che’s. The awful truth about Ernesto “Che” Guevara is that he was a violent thug with despotic tendencies.
Entire intransigence here.
Kudos to Jack Fowler, the publisher of NR magazine who saw the Eire post on babalu and asked to have it put online at NR. It appears right under our Jay Nordlinger’s Impromptus.
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Oooh, he’s all in black, and you know, that means he’s artsy and avant garde and shit. He should have just totally ripped-off the Obama “Hope” poster, but using “Hate” instead. It would have fit Che very well, according to Che’s own words. Yes, yet another asshole trying to milk the Che myth for profit or mileage. Well, his name is Legion, and they all reek. And by the way, Che’s Irish ancestors were the Lynch family. Is that appropriate or what?