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Aug 2, 2024 awa

This has been a week of Rants.

There are things happening on the legal front. I need to go read those cases and digest them.

Ally has been doing a fantastic job getting good articles out, with good engagement. Thank you, all.

For those giving me feedback on grammar, thank you. It is very helpful. I do have some tools that help, but they are not perfect.

I hope you all have a great weekend.

History

Che Guevara, Murder

Aug 1, 2024 Chris Johnson

Almost everybody has seen the iconic image of Che Guevara. Looking heroic with his beret and unkempt look. His eyes looking off into the distance.

That symbolism is not welcome in my home or in my spaces. If somebody were to wear something with his likeness in my presence, I would leave if it wasn’t my space, or tell them to remove the offensive article or leave my space.

To quote Wikipedia:

As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was appalled by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed. His burgeoning desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States prompted his involvement in Guatemala’s social reforms under President Jacobo Árbenz, whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow at the behest of the United Fruit Company solidified Guevara’s political ideology. Later in Mexico City, Guevara met Raúl and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement, and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht Granma with the intention of overthrowing US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second-in-command, and played a pivotal role in the two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime.

You have to carefully parse those words to understand what it actually means. Note, I’m not a historian, just somebody that studies history.

So what are the “social reforms” mentioned? Social reforms might not sound all that bad.

This was “decree 900”, also known as the “Agrarian Reform Law”. This law took land from landowners, if the state felt that the landowners were not using the land. This is also known as “stealing”. In exchange for the forced sale of their land, the landowners were given “government bonds.”
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