US wants Taoiseach to ban Che Guevara statue

The US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs has written to the Taoiseach asking him to stop Galway City Council erecting a statue in Eyre Square to South American revolutionary Che Guevara.

The hard-hitting letter, which describes Che Guevara as a “mass murderer”, was sent by House chairman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican representative for Florida, last Tuesday.

The letter said: “Che was a mass murderer and human rights abuser, whose campaigns led to the murder of countless people throughout Cuba, under the Castro regime, and Latin America.”