With the customary tribute throughout the country, a day of exhibitions, discussions, roundtables, and forums begins about the work of the man known here as the Heroic Guerrilla Fighter.

The central province of Villa Clara, and especially its capital, Santa Clara, which houses his remains and those of the fighters killed alongside him in Bolivia and whose liberation was led by Che Guevara, will host the leading commemorations.

Ernesto Che Guevara, a doctor by profession, was a member of the Granma yacht expedition that landed in eastern Cuba in 1956 to remove from power then-President Fulgencio Batista. The members of that expedition considered him a dictator and held him responsible for the country’s outrages.

Having become one of the guerrilla leaders, he descended from the Sierra Maestra mountain range and, after Batista’s escape and the triumph of the forces commanded by Fidel Castro, held several positions in the years following January 1, 1959.

His humanist ideals led him to the Congo and Bolivia, where he was killed, showing, through armed insurgency, political and social transformations in those nations.

All of this will be addressed in several ways this Wednesday, the first date of Camilo-Che celebrations, until October 28, when the death anniversary of Commander Camilo Cienfuegos will be commemorated.

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