On this day in ‘67, recently turned over by American CIA/Special Forces fresh from the Vietnam conflict flown in for the ‘hunt’, Che Guevara was executed by the Bolivan govt.

I can’t find a link to my favorite quote of his, so I’ll parphrase from a documentary through which I heard this:

‘I’ve found the greatest relief for my asthma to come from the aroma of gunpowder.’

It’s also John Lennon’s birthday. He was killed by a paranoid wacko as well. Both of these guys have been much mulled over in the public mind, and most Americans have some impression of each. Leftists who stood tall with a middle finger raises to ‘the Man’, fighting in different ways and to different result, but both clearly ‘enemy’ to certain minds. One said ‘Peace’ often while the other was more into saying ‘War”, but both were also saying in no uncertain terms ‘Revolution’.

It may be harder to find megolithic Rock icons these days, but Latin America still represents with the revolutionaries. Subcommandante Marcos in a way embodies the spirit of both John and Che, check him out, and the excellent documentary A Place Called Chiapas.