You’d think Carlos Santana wouldn’t make a mistake about what’s hip and what’s out, but that’s just what he did at the Academy Awards last month, showing up in a big Che Guevara tee shirt. So old. So out. So out of it. And so damn despicable. Santana learned to play his instruments with Cuba’s famed Lion of the Bongos, Mongo Santamaria in the clubs of Tijuana after Mongo fled the horrors of the Castro regime. Santana knows very well what the Castro regime is all about. And he went and wore the disgusting tee shirt anyway.

Val at Babalublog has some choice words for this out-of-tune schmuck as well as some valuable background material on the Real Che Guevara. It was just the antidote I needed after some dumb girl in my Spanish class brought us the lyrics of the Motorcycle Diaries as her Spanish project this evening. I about lost my lunch.

Take Val’s medicine here and here.