Che Guevara

I've just seen Diarios de motocicleta, a nice movie about the youth of Ernesto "Che" Guevara. It shows an interesting view of how his ideas came about.

Anyway, it whetted my interest in "Che" and I started searching the net for additional info. And it took a while until I've figured that Wikipedia is the place to look in these situations. After reading up a bit, I've gotten to the conclusion that, while "Che" was a great idealist (he wanted to stop the injustice done against the poor people around the world, and especially in Latin America), he ended up doing wrong things. For instance, he executed hundreds of political opponents, which really isn't a thing a real hero would do.

So I remembered that I've been meaning to find out more about people like Mahatma Ghandi, Dalai Lama and, why not Bob Marley (They were all great missionaries of peace). And so, I've found many interesting things, such as the process of finding the next Dalai Lama, how to make dreadlocks and what are the rastafarians all about.

If you haven't seen wikipedia yet, now's the time. Heck, I'm even including it in my links page right now.

posted Monday, December 20th 2004 at 17:46 | permalink