Another side to Che

Re “Che’s legacy looms larger than ever,” Oct. 8

It shouldn’t surprise me, but it always does. Why do you write glowing articles about communist thugs guilty of mass murder? I doubt you’d write nice things about the German doctors and teachers who fanned out from Hitler’s Germany to “help” in neighboring countries. I really find it difficult to comprehend why you can’t understand that all totalitarianism, whether left or right, is equally evil.

R.P. Nettelhorst

Lancaster

I wonder if aficionados of Ernesto “Che” Guevara have studied his diary and those of his companions. In those diaries, he does not come across as a revolutionary. He was frequently lost. He complains of wet feet; at one point, in an outburst of anger, he stabbed his horse. He comes across as a spoiled son of a physician, not a revolutionary. Was it the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement, Bolivian patriotism or Che’s ineptness that cost Fidel Castro Bolivia and Che his life?

Thurber D.

Proffitt III

Orange

The writer teaches history at Santa Ana College.