buckles, baby onesies. why are you risking your life to fight for us? nowhere is che seemingly loved more than in hollywood usa. you ll see. when fidel is running things, everybody will read and have food on the table. but is that who che really was? one of the things that is fascinating about the cult of che is that it effectively thrives in the absence of any kind of historical understanding. for example, look around at an anti-war rally. and you probably see che. che was a self-taught revolutionary who was instrumental in castro s takeover of cuba. he became known as the butcher of locobanya prison in revolutionary cuban where he personally oversaw the execution of anywhere of 175 to several hundred people. he s implicated in thousands