Ernesto "El Chancho" Guevara

Forse non tutti sanno che il suo vero soprannome era "El Chancho" perche' puzzava come un maiale.
Ernesto "Che"Guevara, celebrato da una settimana sulla BBC international come un eroe, un santo.
Ovviamente non raccontano di quando era comandante della prigione San Carlos de La Cabaña dove diresse i processi e le esecuzioni dei membri del regime di Batista. Piu' di 550 persone furono uccise su ordine di Guevara...

He was appointed commander of the La Cabaña Fortress prison, and during his five-month tenure in that post (January 2 through June 12, 1959), he oversaw the trial and execution of many people, among whom were former Batista regime officials and members of the "Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities" (a unit of the secret police known by its Spanish acronym BRAC). José Vilasuso, an attorney who worked under Guevara at La Cabaña preparing indictments, said that these were lawless proceedings where "the facts were judged without any consideration to general juridical principles" and the findings were pre-determined by Guevara. It is estimated that between 156 and 550 people were executed on Guevara's extra-judicial orders during this time.