Che monument in Venezuela destroyed

[Scurrilous]

Source: Associated Press

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"A glass monument to revolutionary icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara was destroyed by gunfire less than two weeks after it was unveiled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's government.

Images of the toppled and shattered eight-foot-tall glass plate, which bore an image of Guevara, were shown on state television Friday and appeared in newspapers.

The monument on an Andean mountain highway near the city of Merida was unveiled Oct. 8 by Vice President Jorge Rodríguez and Cuba's ambassador to Venezuela to mark the 40th anniversary of Guevara's death in Bolivia.

Police said they had yet to identify those responsible. The El Nacional newspaper published a copy of what it said was a flier found by the monument signed by the previously unknown "Páramo Patriotic Front."



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[Debau2005]

1. Made out of glass? nt

[GeminiProgressive]

2. yeah great idea

make a monument to a controversial figure out of glass and stick it out on a hill LOL. They didn't see this coming?

[alphafemale]

3. And not even bullet-proof glass.

Really.

What were they drinking?

[Speciesamused]

4. Old news...I posted this Monday

Protestors Tear Down Vicente Fox Statue...Viva la ooooops!
Posted by Speciesamused in Political Videos
Mon Oct 15th 2007, 08:53 AM


(CBS News/AP) Opposition protesters have torn down a bronze statue of former Mexican President Vicente Fox, just hours after it was erected this morning.

Workers put up the commemorative 10-foot statue before dawn in the city of Boca del Rio, in Veracruz state.

But by midmorning a crowd of about 100 angry protesters began egging the statue, fastened a rope around its neck and pulled it to the ground.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/14/...

[arcos]

6. hrmm...

Fox is not Che... Mexico is not Venezuela... bronze is not glass...

[minnesota_liberal]

7. Rope is not bullets ...

But otherwise, it's pretty much the same story.

[Miss Chybil]

11. ROFL!

But - glass, bronze, Mexico, Venezuela, Fox and Guevara are so similar - it's easy to see how someone could mix them up. :)

[LeftyMom]

18. All those brown guys look alike ya know.

:sarcasm:

[Raine]

5. I hope they didn't

spend too much on it, uh...probably not. It's a miracle it made two weeks.

[Deja Q]

8. Not the best place to throw rocks, at glass...

Good riddance to paltry window fodder.

[heliarc]

9. Fascists... nt

[Robbien]

10. Páramo Patriotic Front sounds like the typical right wing name

given to organizations fronted by US taxpayer dollars.

[1932]

13. Your tax dollars at work. Thank you, National Endowment for "Democracy".

[EFerrari]

19. Bingo.

Good luck to anyone who tries to erase Che.

[otherlander]

12. Meh.

I think that there are enough monuments of him already. :shrug:

[Beerboy]

14. Iconoclasts.

The Venezuealan People own that artwork; it's the duty of the Government to hunt down those that would besmirch the memory of Che Guevara. Would the cops in the U.S.A. just overlook some criminal fuck-heads destroying a public statue of Washington or Jefferson?

[David__77]

15. Such actions only serve to portray the rightist opposition as terrorists.

I mean, I guess the bulk of them are pro-terrorist and pro-fascist coup, but this is just infantile.

[ohio2007]

16. built to stand the test of time ? I don't think so

Cheesey Che glass wall.





My,
look at all those rocks

[SyntaxError]

17. Who gains from this?

I'm sure it was some right wingers, but still the question should be asked in order to appear objective....

[1932]

21. Right wingers, because, in a country where 80% of the people supports the government

it helps right wingers if there's a perception that there are people who disagree with the government.

Incidentally, I asked myself this same question about the Bhutto bombing. I thought that, if it were really the opposition, why kill marchers and not go for Bhutto? I thought Bhutto was really the one who benefitted.

[UTUSN]

20. "had yet to identify those responsible" - & they WILL be identified, or if not them WHOEVER!!1

Is the Reichstag burning yet?