Lock Of Che Guevara's Hair Sold For $119,500

A lock of socialist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara's hair and related items were auctioned on Thursday in Dallas to a Houston-area bookstore owner for the very capitalist sum of $119,500.

The curious collection had belonged to Gustavo Villoldo, 71, a former CIA operative who helped hunt Guevara down in the jungles of Bolivia in 1967 and who claims he cut off the lock before burying the guerrilla fighter with two of his comrades.

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Comments

[darker]

02:33 AM on 10/27/2007

HAIR TODAY,
GONE TOMORROW.

[Zapatista]

01:33 AM on 10/27/2007

Che was probably the most heroic figure of the 20th century ... and he will forever live in the hearts of those under the boot of imperialism.

He was a modern day Christ ... a revolutionary who wanted to create a "new man" ...

His image can be seen all over the world ... and has become the iconic symbol for the patron saint of liberation.

The reason why ex-cuban oligarchs make up so many lies about Che ... is because they are embarassed at the fact that they didn't have 1 % the amount of courage, conviction, honor, and desire to help the down trodden as Che did.


I can only hope that the forces who govern the universe - grace the people with another Che Guevara ... because he is needed now more than ever.

[guajiro]

09:51 PM on 10/26/2007

Viva, Che lives! For most of us unlucky souls, our passing will generate nothing but a tombstone engraving. The power of a man is in his ideas, as exemplified by religion, or as exemplified by Che's impact on revolutionary thought. Che's goal of providing an alternative to to all kinds of Imperialism, not just U.S. Imperialism, is very much alive today in Venezuela and other Latin-America countries. That the power to transform a society through revolution is real can be seen in the MAY 1968 10 million worker strike in France. "May '68 was a political failure for the protestors, but it had an enormous social impact. In France, it is considered to be the watershed moment that saw the replacement of conservative morality (religion, patriotism, respect for authority) with the liberal morality (equality, sexual liberation, human rights) that dominates French society today. Although this did not take place in one month, mai 68 is used to refer to the shift in values, especially when referring to its most idealistic aspects".
It is understandable of those here in the U.S., whose living conditions are directly enhanced by the subjugation, castigation, murder, and substandard living conditions of those from whom the U.S. military forces compliance, to deny the realities of capitalism's/Imperialism's effects on the populace of the countries it forces it's policies on. But daily the cage grows imperceptively smaller. For our own safety, we have the Patriot Act, designed to spy and listen in on citizens, an act the original revolutionaries of this country, Washington, Adams, etc., took great pains to avoid, to the point of including it in the U.S. Constitution in the form of TWO amendments; Fifth Amendment protection of due process, and Fourth Amendment safeguards from unreasonable searches and seizures. The middle class is being done away with and the gap between the rich and poor are at the levels of pre-1930's America, a time of the 'Robber Barons' (Astors, Vanderbilts, J.P.Morgans, Hearsts,etc). So Americans may yet have need of Che when the hour is near.

[Zapatista]

12:46 AM on 10/27/2007

Christ claims to have come to bring a sword for the oppressed ... and Che brought it ! :o)

[USMCMUSTANG]

05:28 PM on 10/26/2007

How nice. A drunken asshole shoots a man who is tied up and brags about it. Cons love this shit.

[ThePhantom]

07:30 PM on 10/26/2007

This was the ultimate example of karma for the psychopathic Che, who said:

" To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary... These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate."

Che was a very evil human being.

[driven989]

10:49 PM on 10/26/2007

"Che was a very evil human being."

An you are a very SIMPLE human being

[Zapatista]

12:20 AM on 10/27/2007

"We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism — and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital — instruments of domination — arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence."

~ Che Guevara

[steamboat]

11:10 PM on 10/26/2007

"The chicken came home to roost".

Guevara enjoyed killing people. He really loved firing squads. Men, women, and yes, many children. So its only fitting somebody enjoys and benefits for killing him.

[Misanthrope2]

11:28 PM on 10/26/2007

You are lying. We are not impressed.

[Zapatista]

12:23 AM on 10/27/2007

-----> THE TRUTH ABOUT THOSE CHE HAD SHOT


One of the first tasks of the triumphant Cuban revolutionaries in 1959 was to establish justice for the thousands of Cuban families whose sons and daughters, mothers, fathers, and neighbors had been tortured and slaughtered on the streets and in the dungeons of the Dictator Batista's regime. The martyred dead numbered at least 20,000 in a country then of 6 million (the equivalent of over 650,000 dead in a country the size of the US at the time). Justice had already begun with the end of the regime as spontaneous retributions took place against known torturers and murderers whose cover and protection had vanished.

Che was assigned the task of establishing a just and fair but also transparent and certain justice and to bring the process under revolutionary control, ensuring due process, defense lawyers, and fair proceedings. This was done in an exemplary way. Popular, public tribunals were organized. Volumes of public testimony were given, with horrific testimony of the most vile tortures and bestial murder recorded and made public. Some 200 of the worst torturers and murderers of the US-backed Batista tyranny were shot by firing squads. No one has ever offered a shred of evidence that anyone innocent was executed.


... THE END


* Anything else is a lie spread by CIA killers, Miami ex Cuban Mafia, predatory plutocrats, and former Cuban Oligarchs.

[Jakealope]

04:20 PM on 10/26/2007

Socialist?, try totalitarian communist. Too bad they didn't burn his remains. It makes me sick that anyone would honor him.

[USMCMUSTANG]

05:34 PM on 10/26/2007

Socialist is correct.

[Misanthrope2]

11:28 PM on 10/26/2007

Hero is also correct.

[Zapatista]

12:13 AM on 10/27/2007

"I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of individual interest, and gain, from people's psychological motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life."

~ Che Guevara

[TimmySlagle]

03:41 PM on 10/26/2007

Some people are so evil, that death never seems a suffficient punishment.

What a great way to honor a dead Communist, by selling his remains on the open Market, and making an imoral profit.

I wish he had saved more before he burried him.

[Kundera]

02:39 PM on 10/26/2007

Huff Posters to bid on Stalin's penis.

[Gakl]

03:19 PM on 10/26/2007

We'll leave that to all the Neiman Maxists and Trustafarians.

[Zapatista]

12:18 AM on 10/27/2007

"Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery."

~ Che Guevara

[Misanthrope2]

11:29 PM on 10/26/2007

How could we get it out of your mouth?

[NewsSophisticate]

02:34 PM on 10/26/2007

I posted this yesterday.

The Race to Clone Che Guevara is on. Lock of Hair goes up for Auction

You must be kidding. Che Guevara inspired many, but to purchase a 3 inch lock of his hair..come on. Placing all sentiments aside. Who really needs Che's hair? Really? Worse, according to the auctioneers, "they need extra security"...

of who you ask?...Why, "leftist bloggers" of course.

Please read on...
http://newssophisticate.blogspot.com/2007/10/this-race-to-clone-che-guevara-is-on.html

Then check out my other posts today. Haven't seen 'em anywhere else

"Don't throw bombs in New York....2 IED's thrown at Mexican Consulate"

U.S. Military renames Persian Gulf to "Arabian Gulf"....it's all in the name

Haunting Rumsfeld: Complaint filed in France against Rummey for "war crimes"

Mattel suffers from the "lead paint pandemic" ....again. Offers Lead Paint to All

I try to print what our "domesticated" for US consumption mainScream press misses.
http://newssophisticate.blogspot.com/

[toochie]

02:25 PM on 10/26/2007

Che it isn't so. I wanted that hair to complete my commie retro look. Maybe Castro's anal hair is available on Ebay.

[eastearll]

10:59 AM on 10/26/2007

I heard that next Rhandi Rhoads is going to auction off her broken teeth and donate the proceeds to a battered womens shelter. She should raise hundreds!

[ScorchedEarth]

10:40 AM on 10/26/2007

where did my comments go?

[Misanthrope2]

12:25 PM on 10/26/2007

Hotanalsquirts-

We decided we had enough Rushbot spew for a while.

[ScorchedEarth]

03:26 PM on 10/26/2007

Actually I was in a hearing arguing (and winning) a motion for summary judgment when Rush was on the air. I guess I'll have to download his show onto my hard drive. And I do mean hard.

[Zapatista]

10:19 AM on 10/26/2007

CHE’S EXTRAORDINARY life explains part of his continuing iconic status. However, the real reason for his popularity is that the same social and economic conditions that drove him to revolutionary conclusions remain with us today, or are even worse. So what can we learn from Che today?

Che realized that American capitalism dominated the economies of Latin America, from Anaconda Copper in Chile to United Fruit in Guatemala.

Whenever these economic relations were put in danger by local working classes, the U.S. military would step in to “defend American interests.”

---> In the 20th century alone, the U.S. invaded Nicaragua, Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Panama and Grenada, and it built up and backed brutal local military regimes in Guatemala, El Salvador, Colombia, Honduras, Chile and more.


CHE saw injustice all around him, like we see today. Famously, he once remarked, “If you are a revolutionary, make a revolution.”

[ScorchedEarth]

10:29 AM on 10/26/2007

so how are you revolting?

[chuckgraner]

10:31 AM on 10/26/2007

He'll buy a che tshirt and wear it tonite at a capitilist nightclub.

[Misanthrope2]

12:28 PM on 10/26/2007

No, flamingshit, you are the one that is revolting.

[Misanthrope2]

12:27 PM on 10/26/2007

The US controlled these countries in Latin America by forging alliances with wealthy families, who were rewarded with wealth and a system of near slavery for everybody else. The masses were suppressed with military force, often with the assistance of the CIA. Probably still are.

[ScorchedEarth]

03:31 PM on 10/26/2007

Actually, the masses are controlled with microwaves and implants in their filings. And what are you going to do about that Mr. Genius, Esq.

[USMCMUSTANG]

05:50 PM on 10/26/2007

Still are in most. This is why the reformers are meeting such resistance by the dictator in the White House.

[rabun666]

10:17 AM on 10/26/2007

Actually, I've got some Ronald Reagoon locks that I'm going to sell to a Republican for a lot of money.

[Blutus]

10:05 AM on 10/26/2007

Amazing how Fidel and Che
hypnotized all those Cubans
into following them.

Cuba was such a better place
when it was the mob's whorehouse.

[Rand]

10:27 AM on 10/26/2007

So, then, you're in favor of the vast majority of people being unable to read, without healthcare, suffering from malnutrition, etc

I'm opposed to ANY dictatorship, but praising Battista is sick!

[Blutus]

10:32 AM on 10/26/2007

So, you got from my post
that I am "praising" Battista??

The "mob's whorehouse" is praise??

Quit the de-caf Sparky.

[chuckgraner]

10:37 AM on 10/26/2007

Under Battista Cuba was the third richest country in the Americas. Cuba had a higher standard of living than half the countries in Europe. Havanna was world class city. Literacy was at 82%, pretty good considering this was in 1958.

The revolution was to remove Battista from power and restore the constitution of 1946, it was never about the poor. That excuse is what cagastro used to stay in power. Seems like it worked, 48 years later he's still has his beard and he's still in charge.

[chuckgraner]

10:02 AM on 10/26/2007

The man that Gen. Gary Prado remembers — sad, sick, hungry, dressed in rags and alone in the jungle — simply dropped his gun and surrendered, saying, "Don't shoot, I'm Che."

"He wasn't the figure of the heroic guerrilla," Prado recalled in an interview with The Associated Press Thursday night.

Prado said the order to kill Guevara, then 39, came not from the CIA operatives who joined his soldiers, but from Bolivia's president, who wanted to avoid a trial that would give Guevara a global platform to spread his views. Prado said he wasn't present when Guevara was shot.

Prado said that after Guevara surrendered in the jungle to his squad of 70 Bolivian soldiers, he asked what they planned to do with him, and that they initially told him he would be put on trial.

"I'm worth more to you alive than dead," Prado remembers him responding.

Guevara was shot the next day.

viva la robolucion!

[Zapatista]

10:13 AM on 10/26/2007

Like clockwork ... the liar Chuckgraner shows up to smear the heroic Che Guevara. Must have been tipped off on his Rush Limbaugh alert email.

Notice how he forgets to tell you that Che once captured even offered to treat the wounded Bolivian soldiers who had captured him. This was common for Che who would treat the wounded enemy as well.


As his payment for giving medical aid to the goons ... they shot him 20 times, chopped off his hands, and paraded him around like a trophy deer.

And they call Che the ruthless killer (WTF) ... welcome to George Bush's America

[chuckgraner]

10:24 AM on 10/26/2007

roflmao!! For stating the truth about your "hero" I'm a liar?

Why don't you mention the untold number of Cubans che executed because they didn't agree with the "ideals" of the revolution.

Why don't you mention Ché failure as a military strategist? che himself trained guerrillas and terrorists. Castro sent Ché’s “best” to the Dominican Republic in 1959 to organize a revolution against dictator Trujillo but they failed. Ché’s guerrillas were also sent to Panama, where they were trounced by Panama’s National Guard. Castro sent Ché to liberate Africa twice in 1965 and the great warrior took a double beating. Ché went into hiding in 1966. In Bolivia, Ché could only rally 15 Bolivians for his uprising.

[Misanthrope2]

12:30 PM on 10/26/2007

Nutball Cuban exile, perhaps? Or the child of one.

[Blutus]

10:18 AM on 10/26/2007

Sad, sick, hungry.

Valley Forge?