Interview with Che

[ComradeOm]

I found this interview (http://www.rte.ie/laweb/ll/ll_t01g.html) on the RTE (Irish state TV) website. Its a quick 3 minute clip of Che when his plane was diverted to Dublin in 1964. You'll probably need RealPlayer to view it.

Bad weather forces Che Guevara to land in Dublin.

Argentine-born Major Ernesto Che Guevara, the legendary revolutionary leader and 'Comandante' of the Cuban Revolution, was interviewed by RTÉ at Dublin Airport, when as Cuban Minister for Industries he was travelling on a diplomatic mission.

On his way from New York to Algeria after a meeting of the UN General Assembly, Che Guevara's flight was redirected from Shannon to Dublin due to fog.

While weather-bound in Dublin he spoke to RTÉ reporter Sean Egan. Aer Lingus air hostess Felima Archer acted as interpreter while Che Guevara answered questions about the political situation in Cuba and recent threats on his life.

Programme Title:
RTÉ News- Che Guevara at Dublin Airport
1st Broadcast: 18 December 1964
Reporter: Sean Egan
Clip Duration: 2'53"

[Le Libérer]

Very moving, ComradeOm. Thanks for the link.

[The Grey Blur]

Beautiful, too bad it didn't happen during the IRA campaign; I wonder what Che would have made of the 'RA..?

[Spartacus]

It was indeed an interesting video to watch but the translator was horrible in spanish! Now that i think about it..this video makes me laugh.

[FistFullOfSteel]

FUCKING AWESOME!

[matiasm]

Yes indeed a good video, but i laughed my arse off at the translator. poor woman ohwell at least she tried her best!

Pobresita la muchachita Irlandesa!

[carlito]

anyone know where i can get a program that plays it that isn't crappy realplayer?

[Proletar]

thanks, funny to hear his voice

[Wiesty]

that is ausome.

[Gaius]

Originally posted by Rage Against The [email protected] 28 2005, 09:48 PM
Beautiful, too bad it didn't happen during the IRA campaign; I wonder what Che would have made of the 'RA..?
Probably for the frauds, liers and scumbags they really are wee lad.

[Godfather]

It says that it can't connect to the server. Any ideas?

EDIT: Fixed.

[redflag32]

Its a small piece of history indeed,its just a pity the interviewer didnt ask some REAL questions.

[redflag32]

Originally posted by Gaius+Mar 1 2006, 08:32 PM--> (Gaius @ Mar 1 2006, 08:32 PM)
Rage Against The [email protected] 28 2005, 09:48 PM
Beautiful, too bad it didn't happen during the IRA campaign; I wonder what Che would have made of the 'RA..?
Probably for the frauds, liers and scumbags they really are wee lad. [/b]
So your saying a man who believed in fighting against imperialist armies would not have supported the IRA?When you call the IRA the names you have do you mean the provo's or do you mean the IRA that stretches back to 1916?

[TupacAndChe4Eva]

The tactics the IRA used backfired, the civilians turned against them.

Che would have been against the Provisional IRA, which split off from the Marxist origins of the IRA.

They turned into arseholes who were only interested in money.

[drain.you]

Thats cool. I haven't seen much footage of him and even less of him talking. are there any other websites with footage of him?

[Karl Marx's Camel]

27 minute interview, I believe:


http://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1964/12/16.mp3


Enjoy :)

[DORRI]

she repeats in english! :lol:
thanks for the link ;)

[The Grey Blur]

Originally posted by Gaius+Mar 1 2006, 08:11 PM--> (Gaius @ Mar 1 2006, 08:11 PM)
Rage Against The [email protected] 28 2005, 09:48 PM
Beautiful, too bad it didn't happen during the IRA campaign; I wonder what Che would have made of the 'RA..?
Probably for the frauds, liers and scumbags they really are wee lad.[/b]
Since I know many former members of the Provisional IRA on a personal level and through reading extensively on the post-50s IRA I can say this is not true

Big lad


The tactics the IRA used backfired, the civilians turned against them.

Che would have been against the Provisional IRA, which split off from the Marxist origins of the IRA.

They turned into arseholes who were only interested in money.
Neither is this, terror tactics did fail but not because the civilians turned against them but because the British government didn't give a damn about people being blown up so long as their interests were protected, the PIRA were always defiantly working-class and the 'Marxist' IRA were actually armchair Stalinists

Go ahead people, this is my specialist subject :lol:

[TupacAndChe4Eva]

PR, Derek Wood and David Howes disagree with you.


The IRA became terrorists. Their original intentions were good. However, I feel this became distorted.

[Briseño]

Wow, great video! thanks a million!

[RbG]

This clip is a piece of history!! IT is asome. The translater really sucks though, but at least i got a good laugh off it. :lol: she didnt really translate the part where Che was talking about the propaganda that the u.s was making about him at the time. When he said U.S she translated it to Europe! What was that about??!! so he clarrified by saying "North Americans".

[CHEtheLIBERATOR]

:cubaflag:Thanks for link

[Nakidana]

Thanks for the interview, it's nice. Che's charming personality is really shining through. Can anyone please translate what he's saying?


anyone know where i can get a program that plays it that isn't crappy realplayer?

The video has been uploaded to YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNweKx4P00I&feature=channel_page

And yes, Real Player really is a messed up pile of shit.


This clip is a piece of history!! IT is asome. The translater really sucks though, but at least i got a good laugh off it. :lol: she didnt really translate the part where Che was talking about the propaganda that the u.s was making about him at the time. When he said U.S she translated it to Europe! What was that about??!! so he clarrified by saying "North Americans".

Yeah I think it is a bit embarrassing really, but she tried her best. :laugh:

[Propaganda]

Haha Go RTÉ, Radio teilifís Éirinn :laugh:

[jack.19987]

The interview was fantastic. There was a bad weather on that day and I have to go for taking the interview. I never forgot that day. It is my unforgettable day.

[farfalla]

This interview is really great, thank you! I was looking on the web and I found a story about it but it has a different version about the air flight. What do you think? Is he talking about the same interview? It seems so.

Interview with Che Guevara Lynch

By Arthur Quinlan

Last October much publicity surrounded the thirtieth anniversary of the death of legendary revolutionary, Che Guevara. Known as Dr. Che Guevara Lynch to his Irish supporters, the Argentinean had helped bring Fidel Castro to power in Cuba before being murdered by Bolivian troops while trying to spark off a revolution there. In death he became the revolutionary icon of the 1960s. Two years previously he was in Ireland and, according to John Horgan of the Sunday Tribune, was the subject of "one of the great missed scoops of Irish journalism". Quin native and veteran 'Irish Times' reporter, Arthur Quinlan, now sets the record straight, thirty three years to the day that he met Guevara.

Far from being "one of the great missed scoops of Irish journalism", as so described in the Sunday Tribune, Dr. Che Guevara, the Latin American revolutionary was interviewed by me when he arrived at Shannon Airport on Saturday, March 13th, 1965.
He was with a group of 71 passengers on a Cuban Airlines Britannia aircraft which developed mechanical trouble on arrival from Prague on the way to Havana. He was accompanied by his fellow revolutionary, Dr. Osmani Cienfuegos, the Cuban Minister for Construction and some other Cuban friends who were government officials.
I was alerted to the arrival by an American journalist, Bob Loughlin, who had a small PR business with an office at the Shannon Development Company. I later suspected that he may have been a member of the C.l.A.. He would not tell me on the telephone the name of the VIP until I arrived at the airport.
Then, Mr. Loughlin explained that it was Che Guevara but warned that he would say that he did not speak English.
I had little trouble in recognising Castro's Comandante of the Revolution at the Airport Hotel. However, as expected he indicated that he did not speak English .
"Anybody whose maternal grandparents were Lynches wither speaks Gaelic or English. Which is it to be", I said to him with a smile. He returned my smile and suggested that we walk out by the lagoon behind the hotel.
I did not learn very much from him for he would not speak on politics or where he had been. Later it was learned that he had been to the former Belgian Congo leading a covert but unsuccessful intervention in their civil war and was on his way home.
Dr. Guevara talked of his Irish connections through the name Lynch. He said, if I recall, that his grandparents or great-grandparents on his mothers side had left Galway for the Argentine. His were a well off family in the city of Alta Gracia and he qualified as a Doctor.
His name was Ernesto but he was given the nickname Che when he began to mix with Cubans. The Cubans usually put this tag on Argentineans in the same way that the Irish are sometimes called Paddys.
He was 37 years old when I met him at Shannon and when the "ice was broken" he wanted to go with a few friends to "see the night life". Later that Saturday he went to Limerick City and adjourned to the Hanratty's Hotel on Glentworth Street. They returned that evening all wearing sprigs of Shamrock, for Shannon and Limerick were preparing for the St. Patrick's Day celebrations.
Later he met up with Bernie Brennan, an Irish American journalist from a Miami newspaper who had been a guest of the late Vincent Tobin, who was then Press Relations Manager with the Shannon Development Company. Mr. Brennan had spent much time in Cuba and it was generally believed that he was something of a "double agent" who had served the American C.l.A..
It was understood from those who were present that his was something of an uneasy meeting with the Cuban revolutionary. He left the hotel with Mr. Tobin and Dr Che Guevara and his friends flew on to Havana the next day. The Cuban aircraft has returned from the Bristol Britannia company in England where repairs had been carried out.




Also, could someone translate what Che is saying in Spanish in the interview? 'cause it seems to me that the "interpreter" does not translate everything. Thanks a lot! ;)