Viva Che Fifty-Three Years Later

Like every other human born on this planet, Che Guevera began his life as a child. His bloodline was partially Irish and his last name was Lynch. His father laster stated that the blood of Irish rebels ran in his son's veins.

His youth devoted to education and according to Wikipedia the CIA considered the Argentinean a deep intellectual for a Latino.

Three separate tours of Latin America in 1948, 1950, and 1951 radicalized the young medical student and he vowed to fight oppression. The 1954 CIA-led coup d'etat against the Arbenz government in Guatemala convinced Che that only armed resistance could combat the power of the dictators and the USA. He fled with his name of a death list.

Mexico was a safe haven for revolutionaries.

He married and traveled without fear.

Che also met up with his old Cuban comrades.

Fidel Castro led the anti-Batista 26th of July Movement.

Their 1956 invasion of Cuba was a disaster. Most of the rebels were captured after landing and either killed or executed. The rest escaped into the mountains.

The Revolution didn't die.

Che and Fidel were a good team.

Fidel was a pitcher.

Che was not a sportsman.

He was a gun-carrying revolutionary.

Same as Fidel.

Dedicated to freedom.

On January 1, 1959 the bearded ones triumphed over the Batista regime and the dictator fled the island with over $300,000,000 from his corruption scams.

Over the next decade Cuba became of beacon of Marxist resistance against the Yankee empire. Che wanted to spread the revolution to other shores. He failed miserably in Africa and set his sights on Bolivia, the poorest nation in South America.

La Paz the capitol was 12,000 feet above sea level.

Only the Quechans lived higher than inhabitants of sky-hgh city.

Life was hell for the workers and poor.

Life was hand to mouth.

Children rarely lived past 10.

In November of 1966 Che said good-bye to his second wife and children.

His first loves had always been the people and 'la luta'.

His eleven months in Bolivia were a bigger failure than the Congo. The peasants informed on their 'saviour' and on the morning of October 8 the world's leadng revolutionary was captured by the Bolivian Army in the Yuro Ravine close to Sucre.

Twice wounded in a gun battle against overwhelming forces, he threw down his shattered weapon and declared,"Do not shoot! I am Che Guevara and I am worth more to you alive than dead."

The Bolivian Army had no respect for 'banditos'.

Che was taken to a small impoverished village, La Higuera, where Gary Prado, the Bolivian captain in command of the army company, ordered his execution.

When asked if he was thinking about his immortality, Che replied, ""No, I'm thinking about the immortality of the revolution."

In the late morning of October 9, 1967 a drunk sergeant shot the guerrilla leader three times.

Thus creating a legend.

And some think a saint.

October 9, 1967.

Fifty years ago.

La Revolucion siempre.

Sacklers Up Against The Wall

After the Chinese Red Army's triumph over Chiang Kai-Chek's Kuomintang in 1949. Chairman Mao instituted a ruthless campaign against drug dealers and opium addicts to combat the plague of addiction through China. Opium disappeared from most of the country other than the Southern provinces bordering Burma.

This no-nosense approach was adopted by most of the Indochinese nations without success. Junkies are junkies no matter what their country.

Back in 1996 in Kumming I spotted several trucks carrying condemned prisoners to the main stadium for a public execution. none of the people along the route said a word. They kept their heads down. I followed suit.

The Drug War in America has been a failure from the first day that Richard Nixon declared that drugs were public enemy #1 in 1971. THe naiton have endured the scourge of heroin, crack, meth, but nothing prepared the police, hospitals, and families of small-town America for the Oxycontin epidemic. TBig Pharma seduced doctors to peddle their painkiller, touting oxys as non-addictive, only to have rural pharmacies sell truckloads of pills to teenagers ignorant of the drug's deadliness. Millions became addicted to Purdue's product, hundreds of thousands have overdosed in the last decade, and the cost of fighting oxys might be $30,000,000,000 per year once hospitalization, repression, and iincarceration are included in the bill.

Purdue Pharmacuticals has been the primary purveyor of oxycontins.

Three days ago David Sackler declared under oath to a federal bankruptcy court in White Plains, New York, “We don’t believe our conduct was illegal in any way. We want to help.”

The Sacklers' never wanted to help. They saw oxycontins as a pathway to untold wealth.

Their fortune has been estimated to be $13 billion. Their multi-million dollar estates dot the rich enclaves of America. Most of the family has chosen to live at their foreign residences during the legal proceding to avoid prison and loss to their wealth.

Over a million US citizens are incarcerated in loca, state, and federal prisons each year.

70,000 Americans will OD this year.

Not a single Sackler has been arrrested, despite their obvious guilt.

I am personally okay with sending every adult member to Thailand to be shot in prison.

The USA will pay for the last executioner to put down his guiter and come out of retirement for one last job.

A $1 million for each of them.

Khun Chavoret will do his duty and put them all down.

Next in line the Purdue Pharma executives.

Khun Chavoret will be a busy man, but he never misses his target.

Death to the Sacklers.

On The Saudi Cross

In 2013 Saudi Arabia hit the headlines after a young Saudi prisoner announced that he had been sentenced to crucifixion for three days. The condemned man had been convicted of theft in 2009 and Sharia law in the southern province demanded capital punishment, even though main defendant, Sarhan al-Mashayeh, was 15 at the time of the 2004 jewelry store robberies in the far south.

"I killed no one. I didn't have weapons while robbing the store, but the police tortured me, beat me up and threatened to assault my mother to extract confessions that I had a weapon with me while I was only 15. We don't deserve death."

The crimes occurred in Southern Arabia, which is referred to 07, the last area code in the desert nation and its poorest region.

According to the UK's Guardian, al-Mashayeh faced a judge three times during eight years in detention. He said the judge refused to assign a lawyer to defend his six accomplices and ignored their accusations of torture.

"We showed him the marks of torture and beating, but he didn't listen. I am talking to you now and my relatives are telling me that the soil is prepared for our executions tomorrow."

The other six were condemned to firing squads. International protests forestalled the executions and the Crown Prince vowed to review the harsh sentences.

PRI's THE WORLD stated that Saudi Arabia defended its handling of the case, saying Islamic law, or Sharia, is 'above all.'

The BBC, Al-Jazeera, and Drudge Report had failed to mention the potential crucifixion, almost as if they had been paid millions to not report this news.

The Saudi justice system demanded blood and on March 23 the dawn broke early in Abha, Saudi Arabia and seven once juvenile gang-members were led out to the public killing grounds to be shot instead of beheaded due to a shortage of experienced swordsmen.

There was no mercy, even though they had been boys on the date of their sentence. Their crime was theft. Their youth was not taken into consideration by Sharia law and their punishment was meted out 'to deter others' from such crimes.

According to the Saudi Gazette the convicts, aged between 20 and 24, were found guilty of breaking into several jewelry stores and carrying out robberies on the Day of Arafat (pinnacle of Haj) after threatening salesmen at gunpoint. The charges against the young men also included drinking alcohol and firing at people.

Their accomplices were given jail sentences and the lash.

Sarhan al-Mashayeh was crucified after death.

An American expat responded to the news by posting on Saudi Gazette the following; "This is very good. Many people say that executions are barbaric but this is why I love this country because, the fear of losing your for crimes such as these makes Saudi a safe and peaceful place to live. I walk the streets here at 5.30am. Could never dream of doing that in the US."

The punter sounded like a Bible Belt jihadist in the making, while Philip Luther, the human rights group's Middle East and North Africa director told the BBC, "It is a bloody day when a government executes seven people on the grounds of 'confessions' obtained under torture, submitted at a trial where they had no legal representation or recourse to appeal."

Same as the USA under the New World Order.