2017: Fifty years after he left being in charge of Cuba’s firing squads and heading to Bolivia, where he was killed while still wearing his Rolex, communist Che Guevara was honored in India and Cuba this week.
Ireland issued a commemorative stamp.
The design for the stamp was approved by the Dublin government back in 2015.
They should have gone with this instead,
Four years ago, in 2013: The murderous racist was honored by UNESCO
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Cuba held a ceremony on Friday to celebrate UNESCO’s despicable decision to include “The Life and Works of Ernesto Che Guevara” among 54 new additions to the Memory of the World Register, approved on June 18 by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova.
Spanish news agency EFE has the most information on the ceremony, with quotes from Che’s family members who attended the event. Here is the official UNESCO page documenting the inclusion of 431 manuscripts by Che and 567 documents about Che or related to him
Would they find this quote?,
“The Negro is indolent and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent… We’re going to do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the Cuban revolution. By which I mean: nothing!”
Returning to this week’s news,
Anyone at all still questioning today’s decision to leave UNESCO? https://t.co/g9MgVaLN5t
— Mike Gonzalez (@Gundisalvus) October 12, 2017