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Spanish mayor builds eight-meter 西班牙市長秘密打造格瓦拉雕像

Che’s son, Camilo Guevara, second left, and the mayor of Oleiros, Angel Garcia Seoane, left, pose in front of the monument with its creators, Karol William, second right, and Juan Quintanilla, right, on June 28, 2008, in Oleiros, northwestern Spain. 上個月二十八日在西班牙西北部的歐雷洛斯鎮，切．格瓦拉之子卡密羅．格瓦拉（左二）和歐雷洛斯鎮長安傑．賈西亞．塞奧尼（左）在紀念雕像前，與雕像作者卡洛．威廉（右二）及胡安．昆塔尼拉（右）合影。 照片：歐新社 PHOTO: EPA

Che Guevara’s face is one of the 20th century’s most iconic images, adorning posters in student bedrooms and T-shirts across the world. But not content with this, the mayor of a small Spanish town decided the guerrilla fighter deserved to be commemorated in style.

Angel Garcia Seoane, an independent who governs Oleiros in Galicia, secretly used 179,000 euros (NT$8,600,000) of public money to build an eight-meter high statue of Guevara. Conscious, perhaps, that the town’s residents might be concerned by this use of council money, Seoane arranged to have the work carried out at night. The figure was unveiled last week.

Seoane claims to be a personal friend of Fidel Castro, whose family was Galician. He hopes the statue will not only be seen by locals but also by airplane passengers flying over Oleiros.

News of the statue, created by two Cuban artists, was revealed not in the local press but by the Cuban daily Granma.

Seoane said Guevara deserved such a monument because he was “a soldier of freedom, an international guerrilla aid worker, a dreamer of feasible utopias and a symbol of all the world’s revolutionaries.”

But many of the town’s 32,000 residents are less enthused. Pablo Cobin, leader of the conservative Popular Party (PP) in Oleiros, said: “This is a waste of money, a pet project of the mayor’s and an act of arrogance.”

The PP claims Seoane may have breached legal rules because the contract for the statue was granted through a Cuban arts institute.

Seoane was unrepentant. “If it were a statue of Christ or the Virgin Mary there would not be a single protest round here, God damn them,” he said.

There is already a six-meter-tall Guevara statue in Barcelona.

(THE GUARDIAN)

切．格瓦拉的肖像是二十世紀最具代表性的圖像之一，世界各地學生寢室內的海報上，以及汗衫上都可見他的肖像。但這樣還不夠，西班牙一個小鎮的鎮長決定，應該要用更氣派的方式來紀念這個游擊鬥士。

無黨籍的安傑．賈西亞．塞奧尼是加里西亞區歐雷洛斯鎮的鎮長，他暗自挪用了十七萬九千歐元（相當於新台幣八百六十萬元）的公款，蓋了一尊八公尺高的格瓦拉雕像。也是意識到鎮民應該會反對這樣花掉公款，塞奧尼刻意安排雕刻工作在夜間進行。這尊雕像已於上週揭幕。

塞奧尼聲稱，他和老家在加里西亞的費德爾．卡斯楚兩人私底下是好朋友。他希望不僅只有當地民眾可以景仰這尊雕像，就連搭機飛過歐雷洛斯鎮上空的乘客都能看到這尊雕像。

古巴的《Granma》日報報導了這尊由兩位古巴藝術家創作的雕像的消息，但西班牙媒體上反而不見相關新聞。

塞奧尼表示，他認為格瓦拉理應有這樣一尊紀念雕像，因為他是個「自由鬥士，是國際游擊隊的援助者、可行的烏托邦夢想家，也是全世界革命份子的象徵」。

但該鎮三萬兩千名居民中，許多人並不像塞奧尼這麼興致勃勃。保守派的民眾黨歐雷洛斯黨部主席帕布羅．柯賓說：「這根本就是浪費公帑，這是鎮長最得意的計畫，也是一種傲慢的表現。」

民眾黨表示，這座雕像的修建契約是透過古巴某藝術機構核發，可能違法。

塞奧尼對此毫無悔意，他說：「如果這是尊耶穌或聖母瑪利亞的雕像，今天就不會有人反對了。去他們的。」

巴塞隆納已有一尊六公尺高的格瓦拉雕像。

（衛報／翻譯：袁星塵）

TODAY’S WORDS 今日單字 1. guerrilla n. 游擊隊 (you2 ji2 dui4) 例: There are many guerrillas living in the jungles of Colombia. (許多游擊隊住在哥倫比亞的叢林中。) 2. unveil v.i./v.t. 使公諸於眾 (shi3 gong1 zhu1 yu2 zhong4) 例: When will they unveil this year's new model? (他們何時會公佈今年的新款式？) 3. feasible adj. 可行的 (ke3 xing2 de5) 例: The foreman said our plan is feasible and told us to begin. (工頭說我們的計畫是可行的，還叫我們開始著手進行。) 4. unrepentant adj. 無悔的 (wu2 hui3 de5) 例: Mandy is unrepentant about her mistakes. (曼蒂對自己的過失毫無悔意。)

READING COMPREHENSION 閱讀測驗 1. Che Guevara’s face... a. isn’t seen in many places. b. is on a poster in Seoane’s office. c. can be seen all over the world. 2. Seoane hopes that people in ___ will see the statue. a. boats b. airplanes c. hot air balloons 3. Seoane says that he’s a friend of... a. Che Guevara. b. Pablo Cobin. c. Fidel Castro. 4. According to Seoane, people wouldn’t complain about... a. a statue of Fidel Castro. b. a monument to the Spanish football team. c. a statue of Jesus.

SAY WHAT? 說說看 pet project 最愛的計畫 The word pet can be used to describe something that’s very well liked. Hence a pet project is a project that one cherishes greatly and a pet grandchild is a grandparent’s favorite grandchild. Also a pet name is a nickname given to a loved one to express affection. For example: “I call my wife by the pet name Chili Pepper because she’s the spice of my life. We get on very well. I wasn’t even mad after she squandered $10,000 of mine on a silly pet project she had to build a boat for her pet grandchild.” 「pet」這個字可以用來形容某件很受喜愛的事，因此「pet project」就是某人極為珍視的計畫。「pet grandchild」就是祖父母最寵愛的孫兒；另外，「pet name」就是某人為了展現愛意，而為心愛的人取的小名。 例如：「我暱稱我太太『小辣椒』，因為她為我的人生增添趣味。我們相處得很融洽，就連她得意地花 了我一萬元，替她最疼的小孫子造小船這種無 聊事我都沒有生氣」。

OUT LOUD 對話練習 Claire: What are you doing? Phil: I’m cleaning up after my roommates for the third time this week. I can’t stand having dirty dishes in the sink. Claire: You shouldn’t complain too much. I’ve never met anyone with as many pet peeves as you. Phil: Perhaps, but you can’t deny the importance of cleanliness. Claire: There’s a difference between being clean and being a neat freak. 克萊兒：你在做什麼啊？ 菲爾：這是我這星期第三次跟在我室友後面打掃了，我無法忍受水槽裡有沒洗的碗盤。 克萊兒：你不該一直抱怨，我從沒見過像你這麼龜毛的人。 菲爾：也許吧，但你不能否認整潔的重要啊。 克萊兒：整潔和潔癖是兩回事。 pet peeve　最討厭的事物 A pet peeve is something that bothers someone more than most other things. For example, “Al’s pet peeve is people who switch lanes without using their blinkers.” 「pet peeve」就是最讓人不悅的某事，例如：「艾爾最討厭的就是不打方向燈就換車道的人」。

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