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John Lenin
10th October 2008, 14:51
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Latin Americans Pay Homage to Che Guevara in Bolivia
By Redaction AHORA
Thursday, 09 October 2008


Cuban-Argentinean guerrilla fighter Ernesto Che Guevara did not shed his blood in vain, since many nations of the world are currently following the path he drew towards equality and social justice.

The statement was issued by Bolivian President Evo Morales during a visit Tuesday, to the community of Vallegrande, where Che Guevara was assassinated on October 9, 1967.

The small locality of La Higuera, in Valle Grande, is the scenario for central commemorations Wednesday for the 41st anniversary of the assassination of the Cuba-Argentinean guerrilla fighter.

Representatives of Bolivian organizations and of the Cuban and Venezuelan collaboration missions in that country will gather at the historic place, where a ceremony will include presentations of masters degrees by Cuban doctors, while several members of the collaboration brigades, working in the fields of health, education and energy, will also be awarded distinctions.

However, major attention is centered on the electrification of the La Higuera community, whose inhabitants had never had electricity. Also on the spotlight of attention was the declaration on Tuesday of the Department of Santa Cruz as Bolivias second territory free of illiteracy.

On declaring Santa Cruz free of illiteracy after the Oruro Department, with the support of the Cuban methodology Yes, I Can, Evo Morales said: I want to tell the Cuban people and their Comandante, that they are not alone anymore. The blood shed by many revolutionaries in Latin America, like Che, has not been in vain either.

Morales stressed that new revolutionary and anti-imperialists leaders are emerging now, and we, the peoples, follow the path drawn by our freedom fighters.

President Morales and Cuban ambassador to La Paz, Rafael Daus, laid a wreath in honor of Che Guevara, a world symbol of the struggle for all fair causes. / ACN

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John Lenin
10th October 2008, 15:35
Panama: Social Groups Pay Tribute to Che

Panama, Oct 9 (Prensa Latina)

Panamanian organizations grouped in the National Front for the Defense of Economic and Social Rights (FRENADESO) paid homage to heroic guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara, on the 41st anniversary of his murder.


In an activity made in the University of Panama, Bolivian Ambassador in this nation, Edgar Solis, remembered the Bolivian scenario in the moment of the Latin American revolutionary leader's death.



Inspired by his thought, he added, we see that many peoples of the region follow the road traced by Che.



For his part, Jorge Luis Duran, Venezuelan Ambassador to Panama, highlighted the qualities of Guevara, among which he mentioned security, responsibility, discipline, organization capacity and great moral origin.



Leonel Urbino, political consultant of the Cuban Embassy in this country, praised the influence of the fighter's personality for children and young people in Cuba.



As a revolutionary, he said, he left us the example of dignity and serenity, and for the history, something very special, the sentence "Until Victory Forever".

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