Left-wing students and professors, always on the lookout for a new Che Guevara to gush over:

The students buzzed excitedly as they stood in the freezing dark at American University while Secret Service agents searched their backpacks. They filled one auditorium and overflowed into another, waiting to see a Latin American leader who has become a folk hero to his poor countrymen in Bolivia — even as he has alienated its elite, alarmed U.S. officials and polarized the area’s Bolivian immigrant community.
There were grizzled professors and nonprofit types in the reserved seats, chatting of bygone wars and revolutions, mentioning Salvador Allende and Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. A hush fell as Bolivian President Evo Morales strode in, flanked by security men, and the entire room rose in a standing ovation.

Of course, Evo Morales is not a new Che–i.e., he’s no cold-blooded, pathological killer. But I’m not the one making the comparison; the writer for the Wash Post makes it. And it’s not wholly inappropriate, because the same cult of personality is at work here.