"You Don't Know Che" Music Video Debuts
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 12:02 PM
“You don’t know Che” is written and recorded by singer/songwriter Steve Pichan about Che Guevara, chief exectutioner during the late 50′s and early 60′s in Cuba under Castro. Che is celebrated by celebrities and others that don his image on clothing and jewelery. He was also glorified in the movie “Motorcycle Diaries” directed by Robert Redford. Che was responsible for the execution of hundreds, if not thousands, of Cubans who resisted the iron fisted rule of Fidel Castro.
Steve Pichan – songwriter, guitar & vocals
Danny Engerer – congas
Jessica Ripka – harmony vocals, shaker
Mark Ordus – bass guitar
This video was produced by Agustín Blásquez, AB Independent Productions.
Via The Real Cuba
Related… While Bill Clinton was out attacking freedom protesters yesterday, George W. Bush was busy hosting an International Cyber Dissidents Conference on Monday, April 19, 2010.
Val Prieto was there.
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gus commented:
This is the LEFT. They are insane.
Peggy commented:
Just wanted to comment on what Geo. Bush was doing yesterday. I will always say that I was not his biggest during his administration, but I have to admire time and again how he has conducted himself since leaving office. Out of the spotlight, he continues to work for the same cause that defined his presidency which is a cause that any freedom loving American can get solidly behind. He continues to be a champion of the oppressed & the dissident.
Yeah I do miss him
God bless him.
Andreas K. commented:
Hey, the same people worship Lenin and Mao.
Lenin triggered famines, which killed tens of thousands of Russians.
And Mao… more than 70 million Chinese dead thanks to him.
The red color for the commies doesn’t come accidentally. It’s the blood of the innocents they’ve murdered in the past, and will murder in the future.
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Militant Conservative commented:
Wonderful song, true too. You don’t know Che.
Evil incarnate and a murdering thug. I know Che but the young punks do not and history repeats yet again.
I’m not participating, I’m the adult and will not go.
powder is dry
daryl commented:
Lot of voters didn’t know squat about the Kenyan either but that didn’t stop them from electing him.
This has been floating around the internet for some time evidently but for some reason I just saw it today.
In case some of you haven’t seen it either, here ’tis.
Wish I’d have said it first.
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”
gus commented:
Daryl. Obama is temporary. Stupid is permanent.
owl commented:
After all the crap I have read about Bush today on one of my fav sites, thanks for posting the truth about him. Makes me ill to see it places that should know better. Bush’s love for this country and his pure human decency is there for anyone that can clear out their own cobwebs. Plus he does not ‘do’ hate with pointed finger, unlike the last 3 DIM presidents.
Worst Things commented:
Remember in November. Or, you may come to know someone just like Che.
daryl commented:
gus says
“Obama is temporary. Stupid is permanent.”
I think you boiled it down as far as it will go there gus. Agreed 100%.
It’s like ugly. Goes all the way to the bone.
Dennis Thompson commented:
Great song, great tune. Wow, too bad more of this sort of art isn’t prevalent in American society.
Deanna commented:
The People’s Cube has it right…”Che is dead, get over it.”
Oh and, Dennis Thompson I know just the site for you… http://che-mart.com/
bertogem commented:
Where were these guys for 40 years? We thought they were gone like a bad cold, but instead they were lurking in the shadows. Rust never sleeps. Lesson learned.
Semjaza commented:
Alas if you like your anti-Che songs a little heavier check out Babylon Mystery Orchestra’s song “Viva Cristo Rey.”
Jo commented:
Che Guevara tortured people and the lefty academics that are agaist torture laws love this murderer.
Paulo commented:
It was directed by Walter Salles, not Robert Redford.
ObjectionSustained commented:
“Great song, great tune. Wow, too bad more of this sort of art isn’t prevalent in American society.”
Hope I can disagree without being snarky or snobbish. Artists of the right seem to have a penchant for heavy-handed, obviously stated expressions. Subtlety does not seem to be a strong suit in the art produced by conservatives. That being said, I admire the courage of those people putting it out there. Perhaps it will get better with time and trial.
I certainly agree with the sentiments being communicated by this work.
mmm commented:
“the revolution is a monster that devours its sons” from the book, I Will Die Free ,written by
Noble Alexander, a courageous man who details his 22 yrs in Castros brutal and inhumane prison system. A testimony to the strength of the human spirit and his strong faith in God. Our politicians who praise Cuba need to read this book!!
Marcos commented:
In most cases, if you want to know how heroic someone is, first gage how much the right-wing hates them. The greater the teabaggers hate him, the more heroic he/she must be. Che Guevara, (one of the most heroic individuals of the 20th century) invites a large amount of hatred, vitriol, and misinformation from the conservative wing-nuts for two reasons:
(1) He represents many of the noble attributes that their bankrupt philosophy abhors, namely self-sacrifice, helping the poor, restoring justice when it comes to great inequality, and overthrowing the oligarch puppets of plantation capitalism.
(2) Che represents everything that the right-wingers secretly wish they were – brave, determined, dashing, charismatic, intelligent, poetic, and unshakable against impenetrable odds – while they took deferments from Vietnam – Che battled armies on 2 continents usually outnumbered 20 or 50 to 1.
Marcos commented:
Che’s “CRIMES” were
~ Overthrowing a brutal U$ backed dictator allied with the Mafia (Batista)
~ Stopping American companies from owning 70 % of the arable land in Cuba
~ Teaching peasants to read, by bringing the Cuban literacy rate from 60 to 97 %
~ Having the 200 or so War Criminals who killed 20,000 Cubans for Batista shot against a wall
~ Speaking out against South African Apartheid to the UN in 1964
~ Fighting white mercenaries in the African Congo with an all black army
~ Speaking out against U$ and eventually USSR Imperialism while demanding that the poor of the world be allowed to live a life of dignity
Chisum commented:
Oh that Che.
Did you know that his favorite hobby was torturing and killing stray dogs?
What a guy!
Here’s more from Humberto Fontova who is the author of four books including “Exposing the Real Che Guevara”.
Che rides again in Hollywood
[..]
“I’m here in Cuba’s hills thirsting for blood,” Che wrote his abandoned wife in 1957. “Dear Papa, today I discovered I really like killing,” he wrote shortly afterwards. Alas, this killing very rarely involved combat; it come from the close-range murder of bound and blindfolded men and boys.
“When you saw the beaming look on Che’s face as the victims were tied to the stake and blasted apart,” said a former political prisoner to this writer, “you knew there was something seriously, seriously wrong with Che Guevara.” In fact the one genuine accomplishment in Che Guevara’s life was the mass-murder of defenseless men and boys. Under his own gun dozens died. Under his orders thousands crumpled. At everything else Che Guevara failed abysmally, even comically. Yet Soderbergh and Del Toro skip over these fascinating quotes and Che’s one genuine accomplishment as a revolutionary.
He’s lauded as the century’s most celebrated guerrilla fighter but he never fought in a guerrilla war. “The Guerrilla war in Cuba was notable for the marked lack of military skills or offensive spirit in the soldiers of either side,” that’s military historian Arthur Campbell, in his authoritative, Guerrillas; A History and Analysis, “The Fidelistas were completely lacking in the basic military arts or in any experience of fighting.”
[..]
Alas, taking on Fidel Castro as agent has it’s drawbacks, as former colleagues all attest: “Fidel only praises the dead.” So prior to whooping up his revolutionary sidekick, Fidel Castro sent him “to sleep with the fishes.”
Too bad Soderbergh and Del Toro didn’t interview the former CIA officers who revealed to this writer how Fidel Castro himself, via the Bolivian Communist party, constantly fed the CIA info on Che’s whereabouts in Bolivia. Including Fidel Castro’s directive to the Bolivian Communists regarding Che and his merry band might have also added drama. “Not even an aspirin,” instructed Cuba’s Maximum Leader to his Bolivian comrades, meaning that Bolivia’s Communists were not to assist Che in any way — “not even with an aspirin,” if Che complained of a headache.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/che_rides_again_in_hollywood.html
Chisum commented:
Che Guevara’s Rendezvous With Justice
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/che_guevaras_rendevouz_with_ju.html