Looking at Che Guevara
Against The Current vol. 143
Wainer, Kit Adam
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/2433
Date Written: 2009-11-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2009
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13582
That Che Guevara's silhouette has found its way onto walls and T-shirts around the world is nothing new. A traveler through Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s would have seen Che’s face spray-painted onto walls in working-class neighborhoods. In revolutionary Nicaragua Che graffiti was officially sanctioned, as was the massive outpouring of pro-Sandinista, anti-contra wall art. As a fallen martyr Che symbolized commitment and hope for anti-imperialist guerilla organizations throughout the Americas.
