Actualité - Bolivia: Morales Recalls Che Guevara

Franc-Parler publicise une dépêche de Prensa Latina News Agency rapportant la commémoration en Bolivie du 78e anniversaire de naissance d'Enersto Che Guevara à laquelle prenait part le président bolivien Evo Morales. L'évènement met en lumière le renforcement de la coopération et l'amitié des peuples cubains et boliviens désormais côte à côte dans la lutte pour la souveraineté contre l'impérialisme.

Vallegrande, Bolivia, Jun 14 (Prensa Latina) - The memory of Commander Ernesto Che Guevara, very much alive on the narrow streets of this Bolivian historic city, was recalled on Wednesday by President Evo Morales.

At a ceremony to inaugurate Cuban-donated medical equipment for a local hospital, Morales said he was also there to give a boost to the literacy campaign on the 78th birth anniversary of the Latin American revolutionary hero.

Ambassadors of Cuba and Venezuela, Rafael Dausa and Julio Montes, Cuba’s Education Minister Luis Ignacio Gomez, Bolivian Presidential Miniater Juan Ramon Quintana, and Presidential spokesman Alex Contreras co-presided over the ceremony with Morales.

Previously, Morales and his guests visited the monument in memory of Che and his comrades built around the grave where their remains stayed hidden until their retrieval and repatriation to Cuba in 1997.

They also visited other historic places, including the laundry of Senor de Malta Hospital, which has become a pilgrimage site, as it was the place Che’s body was shown after he was assassinated in the neighboring village of La Higuera, on Oct 9, 1967.

The hospital has been completely modernized with state-of-the-art equipment donated by Cuba, which also sent 25 highly qualified workers there.

Morales thanked the Cuban people and Commander Fidel Castro for the health cooperation given to Bolivia.

He highlighted Operation Miracle, including six Cuban-equipped facilities to benefit poor Bolivians with free ophthalmology surgery carried out by Cuban doctors.

Morales also welcomed the progress achieved in the campaign through which 120,000 illiterate Bolivians are learning to read and write based on the Cuban “Yo Si Puedo” method, thus contributing to increase the country’s education level.

(Prensa Latina News Agency)