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it is astonishing to those of us who knew Guevara that a beer should be named for a man who never drank, that CDs should carry the image of someone with a tin ear, that designer dresses should be labeled after someone who detested fashion. But the greatest irony of all is that a man so disciplined and ascetic -- even leaving aside for a moment his deadly political program -- should have been adopted as a symbol by the most self-regarding, self-indulgent, sentimental and hedonistic generation in the history of the U.S.
-- Dolores Moyano Martin, a Latin Americanist at the Library of Congress, reviewing two recent biographies of the late Che Guevara in the Wall Street Journal.
SALON | Oct. 2, 1997