Luc Van Braekel (in Dutch) quotes the daughter of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, in a speech at the European Social Forum, [my reverse translation] "It is important that all men and women in Europe become aware of its historical guilt concerning our peoples. Only through the riches they have robbed from our soil and our people, they can maintain their high standard of living. When will this stop?"
He also quotes the response of Mia Doornaert, editor-at-large of De Standaard newspaper (in Dutch, my as-literal-as-possible translation):
Pure schizophrenia. Guevara and the greatest part of the white elites of Latin America -- her native Cuba included -- are precisely the very descendants of the Spanish and Portuguese that pocketed a large part of the New World. These elites are no more 'native' on the American continent than the Anglo-Saxons to the North. The bad luck of Latin-America was that its 'Europeans' were marked, and remained marked, by the neo-feudal Spain [of the day] with its far-reaching racism, rigid class structure, and distrust of modernity, while the industrious, egalitarian Quakers and other Protestants [to the North] rebelled against the dark and despotic continent [of Europe] and left their stamp on the United Stated with their "help thyself, thus thou helpest G-d".
LvB also quotes one of her nephes, Guevara's oldest grandson, who became a sharp critic of the regime and its simultaneously hilarious and sickening cult of personality. He is quoted as saying: "In today's Cuba, a young rebel would not be sent into exile like Castro was, but put to death by firing squad."
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