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by gmony714 | September 3, 2007 at 10:56 am
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The King of Communist chic culture fashion is having a garage sale. A lock of hair from the famous mass murderer of Cuban citizens many as young as 15yrs old. Who is idolized by many, will be sold with other items in Miami. The Stalinist protege must be spinning in his grave for being many a capitalists dream by all the money made from his image. Maybe a true sign of the failure of his revolution.
The Miami exile who helped capture and bury Che Guevara is auctioning a lock of the rebel’s hair he has kept secret and under lock and key for 40 yearsThe Miami exile who led the mission to capture Ernesto Che Guevara in the jungles Bolivia is auctioning a treasure trove of memorabilia from the iconic figure’s last days.
Among the items for sale: a lock of Che’s long, wavy hair snipped minutes before the rebel leader was buried in a common grave 40 years ago.
”It’s time for me to put the past behind and pass these on to someone else,” said Gustavo Villoldo, 71, a now-retired grandfather who led the joint CIA-Bolivian army mission to stop Che’s aspirations to duplicate a Cuban-style revolution.
Villoldo has preserved a large scrapbook of his controversial assignment, but one he is proud of.
Villoldo, a Bay of Pigs veteran whose role in Che’s demise is confirmed in unclassified secret documents, considers Che a cold-blooded killer partly responsible for his father’s shattered life and suicide in the wake of the Cuban Revolution that brought Fidel Castro and Che, his right-hand man, to power.
Villoldo has joined forces with Heritage Auctions of Dallas, the world’s largest collectibles auctioner, to stage a first of its kind, international sale of his Che scrapbook on Oct. 25 and 26.
They hope to attract bids in excess of six figures.
Besides the thick strand of Che’s sunburned hair, the auction winner inherits:
• The original map used by Villoldo and the Bolivian army to hunt down Che and his band of rebels, including the famed Tania. All had come to Bolivia to spark another Cuban-style revolution.
• Telegrams Villoldo received from then-Bolivian President Rene Barrientos about the progress of the mission.
• Photographs of a dead, shirtless Che on display in a laundry room sink in Bolivia. Prints and copyrights are included.
• Intercepted messages between Che and his rebels, which eventually led to their deaths after gun battles with the Bolivian army.
• And one of two sets of Che’s fingerprints taken before burial. Villoldo kept one; Cuba has the other. Che’s hands were eventually severed to prevent Cuba from identifying him easily.
Tom Slater, director of the Americana Department for Heritage, expects the bidding — which can be done in person, online, by phone, fax or by mail — to be lively for the one-of-a-kind scrapbook.
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at 11:15 on September 3rd, 2007
Hi gmony,
While I like the story, an opinion tag is duley necessary. "A lock of hair from the famous mass murderer who is idolized by many will be sold with other items in Miami." Opinon. Thanks!
at 11:35 on September 3rd, 2007
Thank you for the comment but how many people does one have to murder in cold blood to Qualify one as a mass murderer? Because the list of my fellow Cubans did not come out of thin air. Check with the New York Times archives.
14 executed by Che in the Sierra Maestra during
the anti-Batista guerrilla struggle (1957-1958):
1. ARISTIDIO 2. MANUEL CAPITÁN 3. JUAN CHANG 4. “BISCO”
ECHEVARRÍA 5. ECHEVARRÍA BROTHER #1
6. ECHEVARRÍA BROTHER #2 7. EUTIMIO GUERRA 8. DIONISIO LEBRIGIO
9. JUAN LEBRIGIO 10. “EL NEGRO” NÁPOLES
11. “CHICHO” OSORIO 12. ONE UNIDENTIFIED TEACHER (“EL MAESTRO)
13.-14. 2 UNIDENTIFIED PEASANTS
10 executed in Santa Clara at Che’s orders in
only two days (January 1959):
1. RAMÓN ALBA 2. JOSÉ BARROSO 3. JOAQUÍN CASILLAS 4. FÉLIX
CRUZ 5. ALEJANDRO GARCÍA OLAYÓN
6. HÉCTOR MIRABAL 7. J. MIRABAL 8. FÉLIX MONTANO 9.
CORNELIO ROJAS 10. VILALLA
156 executed at La Cabaña Fortress
prison at Che Guevara’s orders:
1. VILAU ABREU 2. HUMBERTO AGUIAR 3. GERMÁN AGUIRRE 4.
PELAYO ALAYÓN 5. JOSÉ LUIS ALFARO
6. PEDRO ALFARO 7. MARIANO ALONSO 8. JOSÉ ALVARO 9. ANIELLA
10. MARIO ARES POLO
11. JOSÉ RAMÓN BACALLAO 12. CEVERINO BARRIOS 13. EUGENIO BÉCQUER 14. FRANCISCO BÉCQUER
15. RAMÓN BISCET 16. ROBERTO CALZADILLA 17. EUFEMIO CANO 18. JUAN CAPOTE FIALLO
19. ANTONIO CARRALERO
20. GERTRUDIS CASTELLANOS 21. JOSÉ CASTAÑO QUEVEDO 22. RAÚL CASTAÑO
23. EUFEMIO CHALA
24. JOSÉ CHAMACE 25. JOSÉ CHAMIZO 26. RAÚL CLAUSELL 27. ÁNGEL CLAUSELL
28. DEMETRIO CLAUSELL
29. JOSÉ CLAUSELL 30. ELOY CONTRERAS 31. ALBERTO CORBO 32. EMILIO CRUZ
33. JUAN FELIPE CRUZ 34.
ORESTES CRUZ 35. HUMBERTO CUEVAS 36. CUNY 37. ANTONIO DE BECHE
38. MATEO DELGADO 39. ARMANDO
DELGADO 40. RAMÓN DESPAIGNE 41. JOSÉ DÍAZ CABEZAS
42. ANTONIO DUARTE 43. RAMÓN FERNÁNDEZ
OJEDA 44. RUDY FERNÁNDEZ 45. FERRÁN ALFONSO
46. SALVADOR FERRERO 47. VICTOR FIGUEREDO
48. EDUARDO FORTE 49. UGARDE GALÁN
50. RAFAEL GARCÍA MUÑIZ 51. ADALBERTO GARCÍA
52. ALBERTO GARCÍA 53. JACINTO GARCÍA
54. EVELIO GASPAR 55. ARMADA GIL Y DIEZ
CABEZAS 56. JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ MALAGÓN 57. EVARISTO GONZÁLEZ
58. EZEQUIEL GONZÁLEZ 59. SECUNDINO
GONZÁLEZ 60. RICARDO GRAO 61. BONIFACIO GRASSO
62. RICARDO JOSÉ GRAU 63. OSCAR GUERRA
64. JULIÁN HERNÁNDEZ 65. FRANCISCO HERNÁNDEZ LEYVA
66. ANTONIO HERNÁNDEZ 67. GERARDO
HERNÁNDEZ 68. OLEGARIO HERNÁNDEZ 69. SECUNDINO HERNÁNDEZ
70. JESÚS INSUA 71. ENRIQUE IZQUIERDO
72. OSMÍN JORRÍN 73. SILVINO JUNCO 74. ENRIQUE LA ROSA
75. IGNACIO LASAPARLA 76. JESÚS LAZO
77. ARIEL LIMA LAGO 78. RAÚL LÓPEZ VIDAL 79. ARMANDO MAS
80. ENERLIO MATA 81. ELPIDIO MEDEROS 82.
JOSÉ MEDINAS 83. JOSÉ MESA 84. FIDEL MESQUÍA
85. JUAN MILIÁN 86. FRANCISCO MIRABAL 87.
LUIS MIRABAL 88. ERNESTO MORALES 89. PEDRO MOREJÓN
90. DR. CARLOS MUIÑO, MD. 91. CÉSAR NECOLARDES
ROJAS 92. VICTOR NECOLARDES ROJAS 93. JOSÉ NUÑEZ
94. VITERBO O'RREILLY 95. FÉLIX OVIEDO 96.
MANUEL PANEQUE 97. PEDRO PEDROSO 98. RAFAEL PEDROSO
99. DIEGO PÉREZ CUESTA 100. JUAN PÉREZ
101. DIEGO PÉREZ CRELA 102. JOSÉ POZO 103. EMILIO PUEBLA
104. ALFREDO PUPO 105. SECUNDINO RAMÍREZ
106. RAMÓN RAMOS 107. PABLO RAVELO 108. RUBÉN REY
109. MARIO RISQUELME 110. FERNANDO RIVERA
111. PABLO RIVERA 112. MANUEL RODRÍGUEZ
113. MARCOS RODRÍGUEZ 114. NEMESIO RODRÍGUEZ 115. PABLO RODRÍGUEZ
116. RICARDO RODRÍGUEZ
117. JOSÉ SALDARA 118. PEDRO SANTANA 119. SERGIO SIERRA
120. JUAN SILVA 121. FAUSTO SILVA
122. ELPIDIO SOLER 123. JESÚS SOSA BLANCO 124. RENATO SOSA 125. SERGIO SOSA
126. PEDRO SOTO
127. OSCAR SUÁREZ 128. RAFAEL TARRAGO 129. TEODORO TELLEZ CISNEROS 130. FRANCISCO
TELLEZ
131. JOSÉ TIN 132. FRANCISCO TRAVIESO 133. LEONARDO TRUJILLO 134. TRUJILLO 135. LUPE VALDÉS BARBOSA
136. MARCELINO VALDÉS 137. ANTONIO VALENTÍN 138. MANUEL VÁZQUEZ 139. SERGIO VÁZQUEZ 140. VERDECIA
141. DÁMASO ZAYAS
*15 additional executions were
reported by The New York Times (on 2/6/59, 2/8/59, 3/16/59, and 4/2/59),
but names are unknown.
source: http://www.therealcuba.com/MurderedbyChe.htm
at 11:41 on September 3rd, 2007
gmony714, I like this story. It's good stuff. We are so busy
idolizing the failures of our opportunities as Latinos, that we miss
the lessons of our history. Well done gmony!
Siempre Siembra
at 15:43 on September 3rd, 2007
gmony714, I like this story. It's good stuff.great job