Right on! Score one for self-determination!

"We do not want a monument to Che, he is not an example for our children,"

but leaving a street full of glass shards is a great example to children, if not a downright hazard.

Che Guevara would have preferred bullet-proof glass.

#1 You mean right-wing fascists of the variety usually funded and armed by the CIA?

#4 Dragonhead. At least he didn't indulge in activities of the type undertaken by the Chinese government, like invading and occupying a country, then the attempted genocide of its inhabitants. See the following:

http://www.middleeastnews.com/unresolutionslist.html

#1 Wasn't that what Che was all about?

# 1 and 7

Guga and Skullie

Che Guevara was a paid mercenary who was on Castro's side, and any commie there after. True the Bay of Pigs and all helped all this, but Socialism and Communism are no friends of self-determination.

Frankly Che, I don't give a damn.

#8 49th State. Che Guevara wasn't a paid mercenary, he did what he did because he believed in helping to free people from tyranny; as in the Batista regime, financed and supported by the CIA and the Mafia.

Communism may be no friend of self-determination, but neither are CIA funded right-wing dictatorships, like Batista, Pinochet, Marcos, Park, the Shah of Persia and all the others too numerous to list here.

In any event, if a people want to elect a socialist government, like that of Allende in Chile, what makes the Americans, through the CIA, think they have the right to overthrow it?

#10

"he did what he did because he believed in helping to free people from tyranny"

Yeah, right.

He did what he did because, like many members of the bourgeosie, he wished to substitute his version of tyranny for someone else's, and once he got started, he discovered that he had got a taste for the sadistic murdering and torturing that was an essential part of his vision.

#11

And I suppose Batista was all sweetness and light, and gave to the poor?

No. Except what Guevara and his murderous cohorts led to was worse.

Hopefully the entire village won't be wiped out in retaliation. That would be Che's way.

Let's see: Right-wing governments that America continued to back in Korea, Argentina and the Phillipines transitioned with U.S. assistance to peaceful democratic governments with more or less market economies, leading to a free and prosperous people. On the other hand, there is the result in Iran and Cuba, where the U.S. let its friends down.

Which result is better?

#10. Guga II, Rockall - "he did what he did because he believed in helping to free people from tyranny" - nonsense. He was hoping to replace one type of tyranny and replace it with another. Dictatorship of the far left is no better than that of the far right, only (sometimes) a different type of victims. Statues of Che are, to my mind, no better than having statues of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky; ruthless murderers all.