Haha..today's my 21st birthday..and it's kinda weird that i share the same birthday as Frank Bainimarama...it actually makes me laugh to myself..well yea just a little bit..hehe..
I'm having a quite birthday...i always had major plans and day dreams about how my 21st was going to be...big party..all my family and friends there..loads of booze..haha..because im finally @ the legal age of drinking..lol, good music and dreamy 'lovo' and seafood..lol..
but my family couldn't afford to throw a big party this year and promised that someday soon they will..but @ the moment..the financial situation was pretty tight because of the current situation..everyone was trying to save and cut costs where possible...and I'm not angry or sad about it..I'm still so very grateful for my parents and family who have always been supportive and loving almost everyday of my entire life( and that on it's own was a great gift) and even though they do get on my nerves sometimes and can't stay out of my life..I'm forever grateful for their endless love and concern..Ok now I'm going all sentimental on this blog...
I acutally wanted to take today as an opportunity to dedicate it to " Che Guevara"..most young people may not know alot about him but he has made alot of impacts on many youths around the world ..and has encouraged young people to be concerned and involved in the currents affairs of their countries...and he has certainly had some impact on me...and made me realize a few facts about life and to be proud of who I am and my country...
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, El Che, or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, politician, author, physician, military theorist, and guerrilla leader. After death, his stylized image became a ubiquitous countercultural symbol worldwide.
As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout Latin America and was transformed by the endemic poverty he witnessed. His experiences and observations during these trips led him to conclude that the region's ingrained economic inequalities were an intrinsic result of monopoly capitalism, neocolonialism, and imperialism, with the only remedy being world revolution. This belief prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social reforms under President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow solidified Guevara's radical ideology.
Later, in Mexico, he met Fidel Castro and joined his 26th of July Movement. In December 1956, he was among the revolutionaries who invaded Cuba under Castro's leadership with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.( doesnt this famous dictotor remind you of someone close to home!!)
Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to Comandante, and played a pivotal role in the successful two year guerrilla campaign that deposed Batista. Following the Cuban revolution, Guevara reviewed the appeals of those convicted as war criminals during the revolutionary tribunals, ratifying sentences which in some cases involved execution by firing squads. Later he served as minister of industry and president of the national bank, before traversing the globe as a diplomat to meet an array of world leaders on behalf of Cuban socialism. He was a prolific writer and diarist, composing a seminal manual on the theory and practice of guerrilla warfare, along with an acclaimed memoir about his motorcycle journey across South America. Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to incite revolutions first in an unsuccessful attempt in Congo-Kinshasa and later in Bolivia, where he was captured with the help of the CIA and executed.
Both notorious as a ruthless disciplinarian who unhesitatingly shot defectors and revered by supporters for his rigid dedication to professed doctrines, Guevara remains a controversial and significant historical figure. As a result of his perceived martyrdom, poetic invocations for class struggle, and desire to create the consciousness of a "new man" driven by "moral" rather than "material" incentives, Guevara evolved into a quintessential icon of leftist-inspired movements. Paradoxically and in contradiction with his ideology, Che's visage was also reconstituted as a global marketing emblem and insignia within popular culture. He has been mostly venerated and occasionally reviled in a multitude of biographies, memoirs, books, essays, documentaries, songs, and films. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century, while an Alberto Korda photograph of him entitled Guerrillero Heroico, was declared "the most famous photograph in the world.
Our youth must always be free,
discussing and exchanging ideas,
concerned with what is happening
thoughout the entire world.
-Che Guevara-
Che was Hero. Have watched a few documentaries on him. Fidel Castro as well & its quite amazing to see what Castro has done for Cuba out of nothing seeing that the world had their back on him esp The US of A.
ReplyDeleteHey, hey, wakey wakey. Time to do some blogging mate!! Check Baini's latest ideology, 'bainicastro-ation'!! Don't use representing a client in the court room as an excuse!!
ReplyDeleteHe now wants to farm unused land just like what Castro did in Cuba. The only difference, Castro was for the people more so the grassroots. Baini is the reverse.