**Cybercast News Service:** What sort of policies was Che implementing?
**Humberto Fontova:** Massive nationalization. Rene Dumont, a French socialist economist, went to Cuba to advise the regime and told them, good grief, you've done more radicalization, more nationalization in two years than the Chinese revolution did in eight years. They were nationalizing everything, stealing all private property, turning farms into state farms— and that naturally would get rid of any potential capitalist rival. This was accomplished by 1964-65. And Che Guevara had made such a mess of it, the Soviets told Castro “enough!” They told him to remove Che Guevara, to lay him off, do something else with him. The Soviet Union poured the equivalent of eight Marshall Plans into Cuba. Think about it: One Marshall Plan, $9 billion, sent to war-raved Europe with 300 million people, and it worked. Eight of these plans, $72 billion, sent to Cuba, a country of 6.5 million people, who formerly had a better per capita income than half of Europe, and the place is poorer than Haiti today. That defies not just the laws of economics but also the laws of physics.
Via Instapundit [1], “‘Cool’ Icon Che Guevara Was a Murderous Thug, Author Says [2]”
Nothing much else to say except for “read the whole thing.”
[1] http://instapundit.com/archives2/007754.php
[2] http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200707/NAT20