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     I also think he'd be pissed that his image is being sold for profit by
                           eeeeeeeeeevil Capitalists
                                        
> **Cybercast News Service:** What sort of policies was Che implementing?
> 
> **Humberto Fontova:** Massive nationalization. Rene Dumont, a French
> socialist economist, went to Cuba to advise the regime and told them, good
> grief, you've done more radicalization, more nationalization in two years
> than the Chinese revolution did in eight years. They were nationalizing
> everything, stealing all private property, turning farms into state farms—
> and that naturally would get rid of any potential capitalist rival. This
> was accomplished by 1964-65. And Che Guevara had made such a mess of it,
> the Soviets told Castro “enough!” They told him to remove Che Guevara, to
> lay him off, do something else with him. The Soviet Union poured the
> equivalent of eight Marshall Plans into Cuba. Think about it: One Marshall
> Plan, $9 billion, sent to war-raved Europe with 300 million people, and it
> worked. Eight of these plans, $72 billion, sent to Cuba, a country of 6.5
> million people, who formerly had a better per capita income than half of
> Europe, and the place is poorer than Haiti today. That defies not just the
> laws of economics but also the laws of physics.
> 

Via Instapundit [1], “‘Cool’ Icon Che Guevara Was a Murderous Thug, Author
Says [2]”

Nothing much else to say except for “read the whole thing.”

[1] http://instapundit.com/archives2/007754.php
[2] http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200707/NAT20

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