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Book answer - Che is a cult figure, the "Easy Rider", the Jack Kerouac of insurgents. He was young when the 8th SFG and Bolivian Rangers put him down, only 39. He was Castro's Ambassador at large, appearing here then there. He LOOKED like a freedom fighter. He was the rock and roll guerrilla defending the poor, the tired, the mining masses.
NDD's answer - They made a strategic mistake when they took the proof of death photos. They were worried that people would deny it was him, so they cleaned him up to take the photos. When they did it, he kind of looked (or at least a lot of people claimed) like Christ or some kind of angel. They didn't show the pics of his raggedy asthma-racked ass the way he was when the dragged him out of the jungle. Those pics only came out years later.
So that's the way people remembered him, like a saint martyred by the US imperialist oppresser and its Bolivian puppets.
The Cubans and other leftist have done everything they can to perpetuate the myth. Every cause needs its heroes.
A picture is truly worth a thousand words.
Lesson Learned
My .02 pesos
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
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