On his X account, the Cuban leader wrote, “We have been all day in Santa Clara; first at the Party Plenary; then with my fellow lawmakers in various production and service centers; and finally at an accountability meeting. The tribute to Che, the paradigm of a revolutionary and communist, could not be missed.”

The first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, on October 14, 1997, as head of that organization in the Cuban province of Villa Clara, chaired the reception of the remains of the Argentine-Cuban commander, which were brought from Bolivia, where he fell in combat on October 8, 1967.

The Cuban president, upon receiving the remains of Che and other internationalist combatants, said, “Che once again enters Santa Clara victorious.”

Díaz-Canel also accompanied Commander in Chief Fidel Castro in a mass event at Che Guevara Square on September 30, 1996, which was considered the people’s most massive and spontaneous rally in this Cuban city.

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