“We extend our condolences to his family and friends,” says the statement in which the Bolivians graduated in Cuba maintain that they will never forget the teachings of the one they describe as an example of a revolutionary.

“Our dear professor ‘Popi’, we will carry you in our hearts and thank you very much for everything. Until victory always,” concludes the statement.

On the 12th of this month, the Minister of Public Health of Cuba, José Ángel Portal, reported in X the death of the one he considered a beloved person and a paradigm of Medicine and Science in Cuba.

Popi, as he was known by Cubans, led the search for the remains of Che Guevara and his comrades who fell in the internationalist struggle in Bolivia in 1967, which culminated in the identification and return to Cuba of the remains of the guerrilla commander and several of his combatants in 1997.

The eminent scientist served as a deputy to the National Assembly of People’s Power from 1998 to 2003 and was reelected for the period 2003-2008, during which he served as president of the Health and Sports Commission of the Cuban Parliament.

He also served as president of the Parliamentary Friendship Group with Bolivia on both occasions.

He was ratified as a deputy on April 18, 2018 at the constitutive session of the IX Legislature, held at the Havana Convention Center.

“The loss of a brilliant scientist, passionate and loyal until his last breath, like Jorge González, Popi for all Cubans, Hero of Labor and admired director of Health, to whom we owe, among many contributions, the discovery of Che’s remains, is very painful,” wrote Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on the social network X.

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