Ernesto Che Guevara is one of the most important revolutionary references since the second half of the 20th century. Photo taken from Prensa Latina

   Fifty-six years after the capture and subsequent assassination of the Argentine-Cuban guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara in Bolivia, his imprint accompanies the will of millions of people in all latitudes to fight for justice.

On October 8, 1967 he was wounded near the town of La Higuera while participating in the Bolivian liberation struggle, and with his weapon disabled, he fell into the hands of the enemy; hours later he was coldly shot by order of the Central Intelligence Agency and the United States Government.

With the clandestine burial of his remains, his executioners tried to silence the example of a character marked by a great human sensitivity, a broad knowledge of the Latin American reality and, as he revealed in a letter to his parents, a will polished with the delectation of an artist.

However, Ernesto Guevara, or simply Che as he was nicknamed by his guerrilla comrades in Cuba is, together with the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro Ruz (1926-2016), one of the maximum revolutionary referents from the second half of the 20th century to date.

Photo: Citizen's Portal in Villa Clara

The mortal remains of Che were located and returned to Cuba in mid-1997, and rest together with those of his comrades of the Bolivian guerrilla in a memorial in Santa Clara, a city in the center of the Island that he contributed to liberate.

Today marks the beginning of the Camilo-Che day in Cuba, which extends until October 28, the date of the physical disappearance in a plane crash in 1959 of Camilo Cienfuegos, his guerrilla comrade and close friend.  revolutionary commanders were designated by Fidel Castro to reedit the feat of other Cuban independence fighters in the 19th century, such as Máximo Gómez and Antonio Maceo, to take the struggle to the entire country through an invasion from east to west. (Taken from Prensa Latina)