Che Guevara's grandaughter to appear semi-nude in PETA ad.

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NEW YORK – The granddaughter of Cuban revolutionary leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara is at the forefront of another revolution — for vegetarianism.

Lydia Guevara poses semi-nude in a PETA campaign that tells viewers to "join the vegetarian revolution," said PETA spokesman Michael McGraw.

The print campaign is expected to debut in October in magazines and posters, McGraw said. It will be launched first in Argentina, where Che Guevara was born, and then internationally. PETA approached the 24-year-old in recent months after finding out she was a vegetarian, McGraw said.

In the ad, Lydia Guevara wears camouflage pants, a red beret, and bandoliers of baby carrots while standing with one fist on her hip and the other outstretched.

"It very much evokes the tag line of the ad, which is 'Join the vegetarian revolution,'" McGraw said. "It's an homage of sorts to her late grandfather."

Che Guevara was a Marxist leader who played a pivotal role in Fidel Castro's rise to power in Cuba. He was executed in Bolivia in 1967.

The ad is PETA's first campaign promoting vegetarianism in South America.

"We say the best way to save animals is not to eat them," McGraw said.

He said others who have promoted vegetarianism for PETA include Paul McCartney, Forest Whittaker and Alicia Silverstone.

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Edited June 19, 2009 by Confucian

[spookyturtle 9,465]

Hopefully it's wankable.

[_Simpson_ 250]

Interesting that PETA would pick Che's granddaughter for this ad campaign.

[Scott & Lai 12]

Interesting that PETA would pick Che's granddaughter for this ad campaign.

Makes perfect sense: Left-Wingnut Radicals pick the granddaughter of a Left-Wingnut Radical as their spokesperson.

[_Simpson_ 250]

Interesting that PETA would pick Che's granddaughter for this ad campaign.

Makes perfect sense: Left-Wingnut Radicals pick the granddaughter of a Left-Wingnut Radical as their spokesperson.

[lostinblue 1,989]

A terrorist organization picks a terrorist grand daughter.......

[Scott & Lai 12]

A terrorist organization picks a terrorist grand daughter.......

That, too.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

By that loose definition, the American Revolutionists were terrorists.

[spookyturtle 9,465]

By that loose definition, the American Revolutionists were terrorists.

They were terrorists to the British Empire. They threw all that tea in the ocean.

[pedroh 21]

only America thinks El Che was a terrorist..

of course America is wrong there..

[NickD 202]

Those look more like hot dogs with sticks in them than bullets, does she also have buns?

[Penguin_ie 5,993]

I am a vegetarian.

I think after reading and seeing this, I'll start eating meat.

[Scott & Lai 12]

only America thinks El Che was a terrorist..

of course America is wrong there..

Of course.... he was just misunderstood.... he was actually a pacifist, a defender of liberty, and a staunch advocate of human rights. He was an all-around decent guy, just the sort you'd want as your next-door neighbor...

Those look more like hot dogs with sticks in them than bullets, does she also have buns?

I believe those are carrots.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

only America thinks El Che was a terrorist..

of course America is wrong there..

Of course.... he was just misunderstood.... he was actually a pacifist, a defender of liberty, and a staunch advocate of human rights. He was an all-around decent guy, just the sort you'd want as your next-door neighbor...

He was a Revolutionary....good or bad depending on who you ask. If being a Revolutionary is equivalent to being a terrorist, we have a terrible historical predicament over the creation of this country.