Politics. The Che Guevara T-Shirt Industry Celebrates its 45th Profitable Year This Week. Nick Gillespie | 10.9.2012 11:31 AM | 10.9.2012 11:31 AM ...

Che Guevara is celebrated as a “revolutionary” by the Left and the uninformed masses. ... all of it boosted by reflexive anti-Americanism. The most popular version of the Che T-shirt, ...

One recent afternoon, 73-year-old Carlos Barberia was waiting for a bus in Union City, N.J., when he spotted a Guevara T-shirt on a sidewalk rack. He bought the shirt — and promptly set it on ...

But he’s still keeping his Che T-shirt, even if he’s not “a 100 percent fan.” “He chose to fight on. I don’t think you really see that today,” he says of Guevara.

Guevara left Cuba in 1966 to start a new anti-US guerrilla movement in the jungles of eastern Bolivia, hoping to create “two, three, many Vietnams” in Latin America.

An anti-Che Guevara T-shirt available at the recently opened Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, D.C. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post) By Justin Wm. Moyer.