Uhuru-Spirit News
CHE GUEVARA STAMPS SELL OUT IN IRELAND
October 13, 2017 | Uhuruspirit
© AFP/File | The one-euro stamp features an iconic image of the guerrilla created by Dublin artist Jim Fitzpatrick in 1968.
A set of stamps paying tribute to Ernesto "Che" Guevara on the 50th anniversary of his death has sold out in Ireland, a country where the Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary had ancestral roots.
"Our initial print run of the stamps was 122,000... It is necessary now to print extra stock," a spokesman for Ireland's postal service An Post said on Friday.
The one-euro stamp features an iconic image of the guerrilla created by Dublin artist Jim Fitzpatrick in 1968 that became a poster for revolutionaries the world over.
The stamps came out last week.
Che Guevara's father Ernesto Guevara Lynch was a civil engineer of Irish descent and a quote from him saying "in my son's veins flowed the blood of Irish rebels" features on an envelope to accompany the stamp.
Born in the Argentine city of Rosario, Guevara travelled across South America in 1952 and 1953 and was shocked to see the economic disparity across the continent, a road trip that was immortalised in the 2004 film "The Motorcycle Diaries".
It convinced him violence was necessary to overturn South America's unjust social order.
His life changed dramatically when he met Fidel Castro in Mexico in 1955 and joined his guerrilla expedition to Cuba, overthrowing dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959.
In the early 1960s, he worked with Castro to consolidate the revolution, supervising the repression of counter-revolutionaries, and even for a time heading the Central Bank and industry ministry.
After leaving Cuba to spread revolution elsewhere, he was killed in an ambush by CIA-trained troops in Bolivia in 1967.
- AFP
Trump’s anti-Iran speech pile of delusional claims: Iranian President Rouhani
Che Guevara stamps sell out in Ireland
Palestinian rivals Fatah, Hamas sign reconciliation accord
Cubans pay tribute to 'Che' on 50th anniversary of his death
Activists call on Gambia gov't to release environmentalists
Pro-Biafra protests continue in Nigeria
Protesters across Brazil demonstrate against President Rousseff
‘We can’t breathe’: Eric Garner protesters chant his last words
Activists urge a boycott of Black Friday in solidarity with Ferguson
ANC National Policy Conference: Closing Remarks by President Jacob Zuma
South Africa: Mpofu sees overwhelming victory for EFF
South Africa: Donor not behind DA-AgangSA decision, says Maimane
Kenya, Ethiopia sign oil pipeline deal
Nigeria Hyperinflation Looms As Central Bank Devalues The Naira
Uganda will route oil pipeline via Tanzania instead of Kenya
MTN hires ex-US attorney-general Eric Holder to fight $3.9bn Nigerian fine
Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa Top TEF’s $100m Entrepreneurship Programme
Zimbabwean doctors down tools over low pay, poor working conditions
Kenyan judge orders striking doctors' union officials to be jailed
Kenya doctors reject offer as strike hits second month
FULL TEXT: NEHAWU Condemns Attacks on Foreign Nationals in Soweto
South African NUM union says member stabbed to death on way to work
African 2018 World Cup qualifiers results & fixtures (5th round)
Germany to investigate the origins of 1,000 African skulls
African 2018 World Cup qualifiers results & fixtures (3rd round)
UhuruSpirit Most Popular
NEWS
Che Guevara stamps sell out in Ireland
Trump’s anti-Iran speech pile of delusional claims: Iranian President Rouhani
Palestinian rivals Fatah, Hamas sign reconciliation accord
US officials: 4th US soldier dead after attack in Niger
Cubans pay tribute to 'Che' on 50th anniversary of his death
Irish Postal Stamp to Honor Che on 50th Anniversary of Death
OPINION
Kwame Nkrumah: A True Champion of African Unity
Remembering the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising
Boko Haram: Will Nigeria soon disintegrate?
An avalanche of protests awaits Obama in South Africa
Speech Delivered on the 20th Anniversary Commemoration of Cde Chris Hani’s Death
Cuba remains committed to its irrevocable decision to advance its socialist development
SPORTS
CHAN 2014: Why should Bafana be scared of Nigeria?
Bafana defeat Central African Republic
Nigeria turn focus to Brazil 2014 as qualifiers resume
2013 Afcon Team of the Tournament
Nigeria favored to end Burkina Faso’s fairytale run
Oduamadi late strike denies Kenya victory over Nigeria
VIDEOS
Latest Additions
Latest Additions