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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on October 11, 2017, 03:59:01 am
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Ireland gets duped by a t-shirt, puts murderer Che Guevara on a postage stamp
October 10, 2017 by Alberto de la Cruz
The Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal:
Ireland Falls for a Lousy T-Shirt
The Irish commemorate Che Guevara on a special stamp.
Education often means relearning old lessons, which means fighting for historical fact against political mythologists. That’s especially true these days as millennials indulge a romantic view of socialism having never having seen its consequences. So it’s excruciating to see the nation of Ireland, a capitalist democracy that should know better, fall for the myth of Ernesto “Che” Guevara Lynch.
On Friday the Irish post office released a special stamp to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Guevara, who became Fidel Castro’s right-hand man. The stamp features a black, white and red drawing of the Argentine-born medic and is accompanied by an envelope with a quote from Che’s father: “in my son’s veins flowed the blood of Irish rebels.”
Continued at: http://babalublog.com/2017/10/10/ireland-gets-duped-by-a-t-shirt-puts-murderer-che-guevara-on-a-postage-stamp/
I believe there was another article in the forum on Che, as said in this article, it is 50 years since he died in the jungles of Bolivia. A lot more at the Babalu blog on this for those interested: http://babalublog.com