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Related: About this forumIreland celebrates Che Guevara's Irish roots with a stamp, despite opposition
PRI's The World
October 13, 2017 · 3:15 PM EDT
By Christopher Woolf
The Republic of Ireland marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara, on Oct. 9, with a commemorative postage stamp. Its become hugely popular, but its also causing quite a stink.
Ernesto Che Guevara helped lead the communist revolution in Cuba, in the 1950s, but was later captured and executed for trying to launch a revolution in Bolivia.
He was chosen for the stamp, because to quote the Irish postal service Che is the quintessential left-wing revolutionary. Hes also of partial Irish descent.
Thats right. Irish. His great-great-great-great-grandfather, Patrick Lynch, was born in Galway, in western Ireland, in 1715 into a family that had lost its property in the religious wars. So young Lynch did what so many ambitious Catholic Irishmen of the time did, which was travel to the Catholic countries of mainland Europe to find new opportunities.
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https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-10-13/ireland-celebrates-che-guevaras-irish-roots-stamp-despite-opposition
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Ireland celebrates Che Guevara's Irish roots with a stamp, despite opposition (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Oct 2017
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Judi Lynn
(160,623 posts)1. Che Guevara stamp sells out first run in unprecedented public demand
12 October 2017
JOHN HEDGES
AN PHOBLACHT EDITOR
THE Che Guevara stamp produced by An Post to mark the 50th anniversary of the Latin American freedom fighters murder on 9 October 1967 by CIA-backed Bolivian state forces has sold out its initial 120,000 print run.
The announcement confounds critics from Fine Gael, the Alt-Right and reactionary commentators such as Lucinda Creighton and Ruth Dudley Edwards.
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http://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/27169
GatoGordo
(2,412 posts)2. I imagine if they had put Stalin on a stamp, they'd sell out quickly too
But, thats Capitalism for ya! Supply and demand.
Under a Stalinist system that Guevara embraced, Che stamps would be the only choice. And you'd be imprisoned or shot if you complained about it. Che was like that.
PETRUS
(3,678 posts)3. Post #2 contains at least three logical errors.
Who can identify them?