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Santa Clara, Cuba Oct 8 (RHC) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel presided over an emotional ceremony on Saturday on the 55th anniversary of Che's assassination in Bolivia.

The tribute, which was attended by more than two thousand inhabitants of Villa Clara, began with the laying of a wreath at the Ernesto Guevara sculpture complex, which keeps the remains of the Argentine-Cuban commander and his companions of the guerrilla in Bolivia in 1967, and was decorated for the commemoration of this anniversary of universal significance.

The Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdés, vice prime minister and companion of Che's fights, relatives of the revolutionary, and other figures of the Communist Party and the Bolivian Revolutionary Party.

Some of them come from factories inaugurated by the revolutionary as Minister of Industries, such as Fabric Aguilar Noriega, Planta Mecánica, and Empresa Inpud Primero de Mayo; others are Heroes of Labor of the Republic of Cuba, doctors and scientists, renowned sportsmen and women and peasants.

This site, visited by more than five million 250 people from all over the world, reached its greatest celebrity on October 17, 1997, when the mortal remains of the Heroic Guerrilla were placed in niches in the memorial, in an enclosure where the eternal flame was lit by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro. (Source/PL)