John Ridley: Che it Ain't So

A prime exemplar of the "create a legend/resurrection" method of eternal iconography would be Ernesto (Che) Guevara, the Argentine-born revolutionary who was executed forty years ago today in Bolivia. Death transmogrified him into a symbol of revolution itself. Romanticized and corporate pimped, for most who even know who Guevara was they have no idea what he stood for.