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        <title><![CDATA[RFK widow Ethel Kennedy ‘loves’ Che Guevara, ‘has a subversive streak’]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ethel Kennedy has learned to stop worrying and love Che Guevara.</p><p>The 92-year-old Kennedy clan matriarch&#8217;s late husband Robert and brother-in-law, President John F. Kennedy, may have faced off against a Russia-aligned Cuba in the infamous 1962 Missile Crisis — but that didn&#8217;t stop her from putting the face of the communist nation&#8217;s revolutionary hero on a mantle at her Palm Beach home, The Post has learned.</p><p>In fact, her family says she&#8217;s been a fan of Guevara for years — and makes no apology about it.</p><p>&#8220;My mom loves Che Guevara. Her dog is named Che,&#8221; her son, Robert Kennedy Jr., told The Post. &#8220;My mom has a subversive streak.&#8221;</p><p>Ethel Kennedy&#8217;s status as comrade to the late Cuban revolution hero was outed inadvertently when her granddaughter, Mariah Kennedy Cuomo — one of New York <strong>Gov. Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s daughters</strong> — posted a picture to Twitter of the family celebrating the nonagenarian&#8217;s birthday at her Florida home.</p><p>In the background, was a framed picture of the late Guevara on a mantle. After the April 11 image was posted, Kennedy Cuomo apparently got red in the face and scrubbed it from the internet.</p><p>But a source shared it with The Post, and Robert Kennedy Jr. admitted his mom was not only a fan of Guevara, but also a fan of JFK&#8217;s biggest nemesis.</p><p>&#8220;She had a very good relationship with [Fidel] Castro,&#8221; Robert Kennedy Jr. said. He said she met the late dictator several times in Cuba and claimed she once persuaded him to release political prisoners.</p><p>During an event to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis in 2002, Fidel Castro “dined next to Ethel Kennedy while Cubans and Americans and even a few Soviet military guys danced exuberantly” in Havana’s Revolutionary Palace, the Boston Globe reported at the time.</p><p>The love of Che seems to clash with the ardent anti-communist views of both former President Kennedy and her husband, RFK, who was gunned down in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, as he campaigned for president.</p><p>JFK sought to overthrow Cuba’s Communist regime during the botched Bay of Pigs invasion.</p><p>But RFK Jr. said emissaries to his uncle were working right before the president&#8217;s Nov. 22, 1963 assassination to work out a detente with Castro. He said JFK didn&#8217;t want Cuba to become a platform for the Soviet Union.</p><p>Guevara was a top aide and confidante to Castro before he was killed in 1967 in Bolivia, while leading an attempt to overthrow the government there. <strong>He has gone on</strong> to <strong>become an icon to American leftists</strong> and the famous photo of him has become a popular t-shirt fad.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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