On the social network X, the president published a phrase pronounced by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, in 1997, on the 30th anniversary of the fall in combat of the also known here as the “Heroic Guerrilla:

“I see Che and his men as a reinforcement, as a group of invincible fighters, which this time includes not only Cubans but also Latin Americans who come to fight alongside us and write new pages of history and glory.”

Guevara was captured by the Bolivian army on October 8, 1967, while participating in the struggle for the liberation of that South American country. He was assassinated hours later by orders of the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Government.

In spite of the intention of his executioners to silence his example with a clandestine burial, his remains were located and returned to Cuba in mid-1997, and rest next to those of his comrades in a memorial in Santa Clara, a city in the center of Cuba, which he helped to liberate.

At that site, there is an “eternal flame” that Fidel Castro lit in memory of Che and his guerrilla detachment.

Both are among the most important revolutionary references in Latin America and other latitudes.

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