Tens of thousands of Cuban youths learned that Che Guevara\u2019s admonitions were more than idle bombast. In Guevara, the hundreds of Soviet KGB and East German STASI \u201cconsultants\u201d who flooded Cuba in the early 1960s found an extremely eager acolyte. By the mid-\u201960s, the crime of a \u201crocker\u201d lifestyle (blue jeans, long hair, fondness for the Beatles and Stones) or effeminate behavior got thousands of youths yanked out of Cuba\u2019s streets and parks by secret police and dumped in prison camps with \u201cWork Will Make Men Out of You\u201d emblazoned in bold letters above the gate and with machine gunners posted on the watchtowers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Jonn is our resident Latin America expert, but amidst all the angst (quite legitimate) over our use of aerial drones the closing paragraph of the article struck me as fitting.<\/p>\n
One day before his death in Bolivia, Che Guevara \u2014 for the first time in his life \u2014 finally faced something properly describable as combat. He ordered his guerrilla charges to give no quarter, to fight to their last breaths and to their last bullet. With his men doing exactly what he ordered (fighting and dying to the last bullet), a slightly wounded Che sneaked away from the firefight and surrendered with fully loaded weapons while whimpering to his captors, \u201cDon\u2019t shoot! I\u2019m Che. I\u2019m worth more to you alive than dead!\u201d His Bolivian captors viewed the matter differently. In fact, the following day they adopted a policy that has since become a favorite among many Americans who encounter (so-called) endangered species threatening their families or livestock on their property: \u201cShoot, shovel, and shut up.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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