Che Guevara Doesn't Look Like Inigo Montoya

On the Southeast Corner of Central Park, NYC

The only time I had ever seen Che Guevara was on those t-shirts everyone wears of him in that monochromatic, Photoshop style. As such, I never really knew what the man looked like. My only other image of him was that of being anachronistically played by Mandy Patinkin in the Andrew Lloyd Weber Musical Evita. While Che was a Marxist revolutionary from Argentina, Mandy was avenging his father’s death by the hand of a six-fingered man. Both of their missions might have been prone to bloodshed, but when I saw Che's statue on the southeastern corner of Central Park, I realized that the two men looked nothing alike.

This was a surprise to me, as in some of my previous posts I thought that my background in theater had provided me with all of the education I needed in world history. This post serves as a reminder to us all that, despite the fact that a man can sing in a soprano range to music about Argentinian dictators’ wives, he doesn’t necessarily fit the description of militant revolutionaries in other ways.