Che Guevara: Revolutionary, Icon, ‘the Guy Who Invented Those Mojitos’?
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 06.02.08 | 12:13 PM ET
Uh, something like that. In Sunday’s Los Angeles Times, Ben Ehrenreich reflects on Che as pop icon, Steven Soderbergh’s Che and “Chevolution,” an intriguing new documentary about the famed Alberto Korda photo.
Writes Ehrenreich:
The “Chevolution” soundtrack features a song by the Australian punk band the Clap called “Che Guevara T-Shirt Wearer.” (That rhymes in Australia.) “You’re a Che Guevara T-shirt wearer,” the chorus goes, “and you have no idea who he is.” Ziff and Lopez interviewed a young Republican on the UCLA campus, who thought Che was a musician, and a bicyclist in Venice Beach, who identified the face on his T-shirt as “the guy who invented those mojitos.”
In other Che news, he would have been 80 years old June 14. In his birthplace of Rosario, Argentina, a 12-foot bronze Che statue will go up next month.
Judging by a photo of the statue, it seems this Che isn’t holding a mojito.
What an oversight.
Related on World Hum:
* Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Che’: ‘Almost Unreleasable in its Current Form’
* Che and the Image Seen ‘Round the World
* Did Hemingway Really Drink Mojitos at La Bodeguita del Medio?
Photo by mauren veras via Flickr, (Creative Commons).
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