Ros-Lehtinen Calls for Galway to Reject Che Guevara Monument

U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement objecting to the city council of Galway (Ireland)proposal to erect a monument in honor of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.

Despite the image makeover which some try to give him, the real Che Guevara was a mass murderer and human rights abuser. To honor him with a monument would be an outrage, and would be a futile attempt to hide the brutal acts which he committed.

The romanticizing image that this monument would portray would serve to diminish the brutality that was committed by Che and the painful suffering endured by many Cuban-American families and his other victims far and wide. Che Guevara was a ruthless killer who should not be idealized. Instead of honoring a killer, the city council of Galway should honor the victims of Che and the Castro dictatorship by rejecting this proposal.

Galway City Councillor Billy Cameron responded to Ros-Lehtinen that everybody who has spoken out on this issue is within their rights to voice their objections, but that the project was given the full and unanimous support of the council, according to the Dublin Journal.