As the media landscape expands at an exponential pace, Americans are inundated with more information than ever before. The internet, television, and social media reward narratives over nuance, and misinformation can spread in minutes. But what happens when the distortion doesn’t come from fringe accounts — but from institutions we’re told to trust?
In this video, we take a closer look at the story mainstream media, Hollywood, and academia have long promoted about Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara. For decades, he has been portrayed as a heroic freedom fighter — a martyr for social justice and the poor. Yet when those claims are weighed against the testimony of Cubans who fled the revolution, a far more troubling portrait comes into focus.
James Neville examines Guevara’s life and asks a provocative question: why do so many cultural institutions continue to celebrate such a controversial figure?
