Grant F Cauffman JR

At La Cabaña prison in 1959, Che Guevara presided over tribunals that executed somewhere between 156 and 550 men, many after trials lasting minutes. Appeals were theater. "Judicial evidence is an archaic bourgeois detail," he wrote, which is a convenient position when you are the one holding the rifle. The man despised markets with the same enthusiasm he despised due process. As head of Cuba's National Bank, he destroyed the peso, printing money and signing the new bills simply "Che" to show his contempt for the whole institution of sound currency. Cubans paid for this in bread lines. He built labor camps too. The UMAP camps, opened in 1965, held homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and anyone the regime labeled counter-revolutionary. Forced labor under armed guard. These people needed "moral correction". Leftists wear his face on a T-shirt, advertising a man who wanted to abolish the very commerce that printed the shirt. He called money a bourgeois disease. He loved the firing squad and hated the price system, which makes sense, because both let strangers coordinate without a commissar's permission. A killer. Economically illiterate. Incapable of reason. No wonder the left idolizes him.