Jorge Castañeda על המוות כאייקון צ'ה מול בן לאדן
אוגוסט 9, 2011They uncovered his face, now clear and serene, and bared the chest wracked by 40 years of asthma and months of hunger in the wilds of the Bolivian southeast. Then they laid him out in the laundry room at the hospital of Nuestra Señora de Malta, raising his head so all could look upon the fallen prey. As they placed him on the concrete slab, they … asked the nurse to wash him, comb his hair, and trim the sparse beard. By the time journalists and curious townspeople began to file past, the metamorphosis was complete: the dejected, angry and disheveled man of the day before was now the Christ of Vallegrande … The Bolivian army had made its only field error after capturing its greatest war trophy. It had transformed the resigned and cornered revolutionary … into the magical image of life beyond death. His executioners had bestowed a human face upon the myth that would circle the world.”
כך כתב Jorge Castañeda בביוגרפיה שלו על צ'ה לפני כ-15 שנה. היום מגזין TIME הזמין אותו לכתוב השוואה בין השיקולים שהובילו להריגתו וקבורתו של צ'ה לאלו שהובילו להריגתו והטמנתו בים של בן לאדן.
