Use of Che Guevara photo in Mercedes-Benz presentation causes stir [View all]
Posted on Thursday, 01.12.12
Use of Che Guevara photo in Mercedes-Benz presentation causes stir
Mercedes-Benz’s parent company apologized for using a photo of Che Guevara to sell its vehicles.
BY ALFONSO CHARDY AND JUAN O. TAMAYO
achardy@ElNuevoHerald.com
The company that manufactures Mercedes-Benz luxury cars unleashed outrage among Cuban-Americans in Miami and other cities on Thursday for using the image of Argentine revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara to promote their vehicles.
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Among those denouncing the glorification of Guevara was a Cuban-American from Miami who helped track down Guevara in Bolivia before his execution in 1967.
Felix Rodriguez, one of three Cuban exiles recruited by the CIA to help Bolivian soldiers search for Guevara, said he had entered the Mercedes-Benz website to express his anger at the use of the guerrilla’s image.
In a comment he posted, Rodriguez said: “I know who Che Guevara was and he was a criminal, a murderer and a person who hated the United States of America.”
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http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/12/2586921/use-of-che-guevara-photo-in-mercedes.html
Felix Rodriguez, lying on the stage, next to Porter Goss, next to Barry Seal, CIA operatives in
Mexico City, in 1963.
Rodriguez, standing right behind Che Guevara after they had shot
him in the leg, and before they executed him in Bolivia.
Visiting George H W Bush at the Vice President's residence.
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