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Notes

¹David Howden, “In the Footsteps of Che Guevara: Democracy in South America,” The Independent, December 16, 2005.

²Humberto Fontova, “Che at the Oscars,” LewRockwell.com, April 2, 2005. Also, Fontova, “Che Guevara: Assassin and Bumbler,” News Max, February 23, 2004.

³Jon Lee Anderson, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (New York: Grove Press, 1998), 773.

⁴Cited in Fontova, “Che Guevara: Assassin and Bumbler.”

⁵Ibid.

⁶Humberto Fontova, Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant (New York: Regnery Publishing, 2005), 84. See also Humberto Fontova, “Castro Is Still Dead,” LewRockwell.com, August 16, 2006.

⁷Fontova, “Castro Is Still Dead.”

⁸“The North Korean Refugee Crisis: Human Rights and International Response,” edited by Stephen Haggard and Marcus Noland, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, 2006. Admittedly, this is a U.S. government report.

⁹The socialist scholar Samuel Farber in “The Resurrection of Che Guevara,” New Politics, Summer 1998: “Clearly, Che Guevara played a key role in inaugurating a tradition of arbitrary, non‐judicial detentions, and later used the UMAP (Military Units to Aid Production) camps for the confinement of dissidents and social ‘deviants’: homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, practitioners of secret Afro‐Cuban religions such as Abakua, and non‐political rebels. In the 1980s and 1990s this non‐judicial forced confinement was also applied to AIDS victims.” See also Alvaro Vargas Llosa, “The Killing Machine: Che Guevara, from Communist Firebrand to ...