Students to discuss facts and myths of Che Guevara today

Senior Kimberly Roberts, president of Gamma Phi Omega International Sorority, said she first became interested in the legend surrounding Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara after seeing the film “The Lost City.”\n“I would see people wearing his T-shirt, or having his poster on their walls, and I would just wonder, ‘Do people really know what he did?’” she said. \nHer curiosity inspired her enough to create an event, with the support of her sorority sisters, that would discuss in depth the facts and myths of Che Guevara. \nGamma Phi Omega will host a discussion at 7 p.m. tonight at La Casa titled “Che Who?” Beginning with the film “The True Story of Che Guevara.” Leo R. Dowling International Center Program Assistant Daniel Soto will lead a neutral discussion about the life and legacy of Guevara, Roberts said. \n“Many people have a different view about Che,” Roberts said. “Some see him as a revolutionary, leading in the struggles in Cuba, Bolivia and the Congo. But then there are other people who see him only in the way that he carried out his idea, in a very harsh way. I’ve met a lot of Cubans who can’t stand him and who blame him for the way Cuba is today.” \nRoberts said that during the discussion, a resource list of books and movies about Guevara will be handed out.\n“I hope that whoever does show up will leave here with a deeper, neutral knowledge of Che based on the information that we give them,” Roberts said. “From that, they can form their own opinions of him.” \nRoberts said that the main goal of the discussion is to educate people about Guevara. \n“I don’t think enough people really know why they like him and support him,” she said. “Unless you’ve done research (on) him, I don’t think you should support or defend him the way that people do.”