Why Ireland's commemorative Che Guevara stamp is angering people in Miami - News Summed Up

Why Ireland's commemorative Che Guevara stamp is angering people in Miami


Fifty years after he was gunned down in a Bolivian jungle, revolutionary iconoclast Ernesto “Che” Guevara is still setting off controversy. But across the Atlantic Ocean, the commemorative postage is not sitting well with the families still reeling from the aftershocks of the Cuban revolution and the Castro regime, the Irish Times reports. “Ireland just put domestic terrorist Che Guevara on a stamp bc of his Irish heritage. According to the Times, Richmond compared the decision to giving Cambodian dictator Pol Pot or Romanian strongman Nicolae Ceausescu a similar honor. “Minister, as you will be aware, Che Guevara was a violent revolutionary whose legacy has been greatly glossed over.”


Source: National Post October 10, 2017 14:26 UTC



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