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Che Guevara. Should a Chicano Care?

Che Guevara. Should a Chicano Care?

DOES CHE GUEVARA DESERVE TO BE AN ICON for Xicanos, Xicanas, Latinas, Latinos? Only if we remember where the struggle lies and what it is about, at heart.

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‘a perceived oppressive government’

IT’S NOT DIFFICULT TO FIND A MOVIE that portrays the indigenous of this land as heartless brutal savages. Be the people called Apache or Mayan, be the portryal be by John Wayne or Mel Gibson. We enlist words to mask the truth of history. And then, sometimes, we use art to tear that mask away. This is why Art is considered powerful and dangerous by some.

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Victor Jara and Che Guevara

HISTORY REVEALS PATTERNS and patterns reveal truths. Truth is not always beautiful. Sometimes it is very brutal and bloody, like freedom. Freedom is a time for music and so is war. A revolutionary hand can strum a guitar or wield a machete. Or both.

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Your Ché For the Day

ONE DAY WE WILL LOOK BACK and reminisce when the mainstream media fought so hard against la cultura coming from anywhere south of el Rio Bravo. Come that time, the US mainstream media will be, by nature, splendidly rife with spicy and varied flavors and flourishes no matter from where you sip…