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More and more we see in our streets people using banners or T-shirts with the picture or drawing of Che Guevara. It seems that some people think that the "enemies of my enemy are my friends", but in my view this is a poor and simplistic way to ascribe oneself to a group or ideology. In many cases you find that these people are "deeply religious", something even worse, for how can it be possible for a person with religious feelings to be associated with someone who preached the most materialist and anti-religious doctrines of the world?

Perhaps Che Guevara became popular for his constant fight against the "American Empire", and may be this is the reason why his figure rises some sympathy. Nevertheless, this situation reminds me of the famous arabic story of the three bulls (white, red and black) which end up eaten by the lion ,for the end of this revolutionary doctrine is to destroy all forms of freedom and faith, since they consider that religions are no more than "opium for the people". By the way, Che Guevara proved that this was also his idea: many believers were executed by him during the Cuban revolution by the mere fact of being ascribed to a religion, besides him having a special taste for personally executing with his own hands 216 persons (I repeat, 216) between 1957 and 1959 (Sierra Maestra, Santa Clara and La Cabana fortress) and all that without previous trial.

He used to say to the people under his command: "In case of doubt, it is always better to kill." Indeed he practiced it in many ways, also he did it slowly... starving the Cuban people:

During his period ruling the National Bank of Cuba, and the Department of the National Agrarian Reform (1959) and later on as Minister of Industry (1961), the sugar industry collapsed, the industrialization of the country absolutely failed and it was necessary to introduce food rationing (present up to our days). And all that happened in one of the four most advanced economies of America in that epoch.

Nevertheless, some people think that the main determinant factor for his actions was his untiring idealism. My view is different: it was hatred.

Since childhood his rebelliousness, bad behavior, and dirtiness (his nickname, used by his family and colleagues at school was "the pig") made him famous among his contemporaries. And you know, beyond political systems and ideologies, there are men. From our childhood we have to deal with a series of problems, some people learn how to solve them, developing their personal qualities and becoming mature and responsible citizens, some others are unable to do so, and become "anarchists", "communists", "nazis", "rebels" or followers of a any "revolution", just as a result of their personal frustration. For them, revolution is synonymous of "destruction", they ignore that real revolution means re-evolution. Anyway, his own words reveal his personality:

"...hatred is an important factor for fighting: intransigent hatred for the enemy, for hatred is able to give impulse beyond the limitations of the human being, thus converting him into an effective, violent, and selective cold killing machine. Our soldiers must become like this; a people without hatred cannot triumph over a brutal enemy"

Che Guevara used to say proudly that his country was "ready to risk everything even through an atomic war of inconceivable destruction, just for the sake to defend a principle" . That type of affirmation is at the very root of fanaticism. Is this the reason why some people today like to show his portrait on their clothes or cars? Are they fanatics like him or they just ignore the true nature of Che Guevara?

Former President Gamal Abdel Nasser said that one day Che Guevara asked him how many persons were forced to abandon Egypt after his agrarian reforms. Nasser answered that no one was forced to emigrate. Then Che Guevara, absolutely infuriated, replied saying that the way how to measure the deepness of a change consists of counting how many persons feel that they cannot have anymore their place in the "new society".

Those using the T-shirts of Che Guevara forget or ignore that this bloodthirsty Argentinian encouraged his guerrillas to "create one, two, three... many Vietnams". Nevertheless, the ultimate reason why he was captured is because he did not get any support from the peasants and farmers during his attempt to create a revolution in Bolivia. He was supposed to be fighting for them, but they knew better his real nature: a cruel killer.

Today it may be that the reason why Che Guevara became popular is ignorance, or it may be that hatred invaded our society, or it may be that the fanatics in their simplistic views consider that the "enemies of my enemy are my friends", but if to fight against our enemies means to become like them, then that solution is not worthy at all, for hatred only creates hatred, and injustice only can be defeated by Justice, and only just men may provide it.