A former CIA operative and Cuban exile plans to auction what he says is a lock of Che Guevara’s hair, snipped before the Argentinian revolutionary and friend of Fidel Castro was buried in 1967.
Gustavo Villoldo, 71, was involved in Guevara’s capture in the jungles of Bolivia, according to unclassified U.S. records and other documents. He plans to auction the hair and other items kept in a scrapbook since the joint CIA-Bolivian army mission 40 years ago.
“It’s time for me to put the past behind and pass these on to someone else,” said Villoldo, also a veteran of the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
The scrapbook also holds a map used to track down Guevara in Bolivia, photos of Guevara’s body, intercepted messages between Guevara and his rebels and a set of Guevara’s fingerprints taken before his burial.
If I had that hair, I could break out my Voodoo stuff and . . . wait! He’s already dead! Crap.
If dicentra had a lock of that hair, she could use it to appease the Water Feature Gods.
Will the faculty at Berkeley snap it up and erect a shrine to the fallen hero?
Hell, if they had enough pull in the high-tech departments, the FacProggs might try to clone him back to life.
Well, it depends. Is the lock of hair nobly looking off into the distance? Does it have it’s own beret? “….and a set of Guevara’s fingerprints taken before his burial.” Now if he had a set taken AFTER the burial…..Well then you got something.
“Hell, if they had enough pull in the high-tech departments, the FacProggs might try to clone him back to life.”
Impossible! They’d never get the zoning clearances to build the lonely mountaintop castle.
I’ve already claimed copyright on the new line of T-shirts and posters. I’ll be a legend amongst the hygiene-deficient, a giant in the halls of university housing with tinfoil over the windows and bong water congealed with matted Irish Setter hair in the carpet. I’ll be wading in collectivist gravy, farting through silk made by smiling workers.