Document Friday: Che Guevara Thanks the United States for the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
"Thank you very much for the invasion."
At 2:00 AM on 22 August 1961 White House aid Dick Goodwin met with Che Guevara at cocktail party after the Inter-American Economic and Social Council conference in Punta del Este, Uruguay. Che wore his “green fatigues, and his usual overgrown and scraggly beard.” Guevara spoke “calmly and in a straightforward manner,” and the discussion ranged from the possibility of a modus vivendi between Cuba and the US; to the need for the Kennedy administration to understand the Cuban Revolution; to an analysis of Fidel Castro’s psyche; to the the Cuban economic policy on its island and throughout Latin America; to Guantanamo Bay; and even about various plane thefts. (The whole conversation is worthy of a read, it’s a very nice write up by Goodwin.)
Then, as their conversation wound down, Guevara “went on to say that he wanted to thank us [the United States] very much for the invasion –that it had been a great political victory for them– enabled them to consolidate — and transformed them from an aggrieved little country to an equal.”
"Thank you very much for the invasion."
It’s in the spirit of Commandante Che (joke) that I would like to thank the CIA very much for their recent response to a FOIA request for the final volume of their history of the Bay of Pigs invasion. By stating in DC Federal Court that its release would “confuse the public” and must remain classified as a “predecisional” document, the Agency has transformed me from an aggrieved little FOIA requester — and enabled me to demonstrate the CIA’s frequent excessive secrecy overreach.
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LONG LIVE TO COMANDANTE ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA , who lives in hearts, freedom, people, earth.
AMERICA is a continent, not a country , ignorant gringos, learn history!. The name is United stated (country) of AMERICA (CONTINENT). You’ are the only country who dosnt have a name.
CIA you criminals, always killing people who don’t wants your united estates imperialism.!!..illuminatis, you atheist fucking bastards murderer of your own right correct people like Kennedy, .PEOPLE WAKE UP, this goverment is corrupt, full of iluminatis un freedom, HIS BETTER ARM is THE LIES!- media corrupt. DONT USE MORE WAR USA FOR MAKE SLAVES OF THE PEOPLE!!
“The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.”
SIMÓN BOLIVAR.
¡HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE, COMANDANTE, FRIEND, AMIGO, ERNESTO!
@Bet
Anybody who worships Che is a delusional idiot and a reactionary piece of shit. The guy was a racist, homophobic totalitarian, who founded the Cuban concentration (er, “labor”) camps where dissidents, gays, and other “unwanted” are sent to rot. So all praise for the bullet that ended that miserable louse’s life, and fuck you. You don’t know anything about the people, liberation of slaves, or revolution if you look up to Che Guevara. Maybe you should WAKE UP yourself.