“We should not allow the word ‘democracy’ to be utilized apologetically to represent the dictatorship of the exploiting classes.”
— Che Guevara, ‘Guerrilla Warfare: A Method’, 1963
American right-wingers like to ignore the inconvenient fact that Che Guevara battled 3 U.S.-backed dictators on 3 separate continents (Batista/Cuba, Mobutu/Congo, & Barrientos/Bolivia).
The right-wing also likes to avoid acknowledging that Che’s radicalism was spawned from living in Guatemala during the 1953 overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz by the CIA (Operation PBSUCCESS) on behalf of Secretary of State Dulles and the United Fruit Company.
As the Cuban Revolution and Che proved, when given the decision of backing a democratic government that represents the interests of the majority of a nation’s citizens or a fascist right-wing dictator who will protect the business interests of the United States = the U.S. will always chose the latter. And as many of the recent U.S.-backed dictators and oligarchic “Royal Families” in the Arab World continue to feel the pressure from their people; it’s important to remember that the deposed Hosni Mubarak in Egypt was only one in a long line of U.S. government backed tyrants.
