The Environmental Protection Agency commemorated the start of
Hispanic Heritage Month with a picture of Che Guevara and a bit of
plagiarism.
An internal email obtained by BuzzFeed and distributed
to agency employees marking the start of the celebration of Hispanic
culture this Saturday, featured the above image of a horse and buggy
passing a billboard of the Marxist revolutionary, in addition to a
listing of facts about Hispanic culture.
"Hispanic people are
vibrant, socializing and fun loving people," one entry reads. "Among
various facts associated to this culture is that they have a deep sense
of involvement in their family traditions and cultures."
But that text and the photo appear to be lifted word-for-word and without attribution from the website Buzzle.com.
UPDATE: Foreign Relations Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida Republican, blasted the agency in a statement:
Heritage Month, Ros-Lehtinen Says That Che Image Is An Insult To Countless People
Who Lost Family Members Because Of His Evil & Twisted Acts
Washington,
DC – Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) issued the following
statement condemning an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) internal
department email with a Che Guevara image in celebration of Hispanic
Heritage Month.
I am aghast and upset that a federal
agency would send an email depicting el Che Guevara in celebration of
Hispanic Heritage Month. This Administration just doesn’t seem to get
it. The image of Che is an insult to countless people who lost family
members because of his evil and twisted acts.
El Che was a blood
thirsty, vengeful, cowardly, sadistic, two bit delinquent who used his
position as enforcer in chief of the Castro brothers to send countless
innocent persons before the firing squads. His role in the early part of
the disastrous calamity that befell the Cuban nation known as the
Castro Revolution is well documented and those who ignore it do so
willingly so as not to tarnish their love affair with the dictatorship
of the Castro brothers.
Surely, the EPA could have chosen the
image of a Hispanic person who really possessed the attributes that
showcase our proud Hispanic heritage. This sad and unnecessary episode
encompasses all that is wrong with this Administration: Their priorities
are backwards and their allegiances border on the fringe of society
with a leftist fanatical slant that is worrisome and not descriptive of
our great nation.
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