About a week behind the news cycle, but the work of the Young America’s Foundation deserves attention. Washington Times: Poster Relates Che’s Dark Side.
One of the most famous faces of communism is getting a makeover this week, with a new poster designed to teach students the whole story about Cuban revolutionary icon Ernesto “Che” Guevara.
“The Victims of Che Guevera” poster, produced by the Young America’s Foundation, centers on a collage that uses tiny photos of those killed by Cuba’s communist regime to compose the face of the Marxist guerrilla, who has become a popular T-shirt icon.
“Che is one of the heroes that the left idolizes,” said Patrick X. Coyle, vice president of YAF. “But a lot of kids don’t know anything about him. We thought this would be a great way to highlight his atrocities…”
The Che poster was the brainchild of YAF President Ron Robinson and created by designer Jonathan Briggs.
“We worked with Umberto Fontova, author of ‘Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him,’ and he helped us acquire the images” of victims of Cuban communism, Mr. Coyle said…
A famous photo of Guevara by Alberto Korda was made into a poster that adorned the walls of many student radicals in the U.S. during the era in the late 1960s and early ’70s.
Guevara was “an international terrorist and mass murderer,” the YAF poster declares.
It’s no accident, Mr. Coyle suggests, that Guevara T-shirts are worn by students on so many campuses today. “Colleges and universities are the last holdouts of Marxist ideas,” he said.
(h/t: Bryan Preston)
The YAF’s poster, click to enlarge.
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Investor’s Business Daily on Che Guevara:
[Guevara] was a psychopath with a central role in Cuba’s 1961 mass executions in the “year of the wall.” Guevara signed at least 600 death warrants and executed children against firing squad walls; he was responsible for at least 2,000 deaths.
After that, the Argentine-born communist organized Cuba’s gulag. His violence was so over the top it scared even Castro, who eventually sent him away to fight mercenary wars in Africa.
A recent Che sighting:
(Photo from NoHillaryClinton.com)