Hey, Hollywood: Oh Che, can you see the real Guevara?

Wow, my second Che Guevara-related post in less the 12 hours. The picture I took last fall outside the Joan F. Arai Middle School on Chicago's North Side. The lettering reads "Uplift Social Justice."

Andy Garcia knows see the real Che. And as Front Page Magazine's Lloyd Billingsley writes in his review of the Garcia-directed The Lost City, "El Che" was not "Uplifting Social Justice" in a way reasonable people see it.

In The Lost City, Fidel Castro appears as himself in newsreel footage. We do get to see Che Guevara, played by Jsu Garcia, who bears a remarkable likeness to the upper-class Argentine Stalinist whose mug adorns so many T-shirts. We also see Guevara rather casually executing people, though nothing on the scale of what actually happened. As Andy Garcia explained to an interviewer:

"You know, this is what Che was doing in Cuba. He was the tribunal judge after the revolution and he was executing people left and right and a lot of them without a trial."

Let's hope that Garcia can convince the rest of the Hollywood establishment, as well as the Chicago Public Schools, that Che was not a hero.

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