President Diaz-Canel chairs tribute to Che Guevara in Cuba

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel headed here on Saturday the main event on the 55th anniversary of the assassination of Ernesto Che Guevara in Bolivia.

The tribute began with the laying of a wreath at the Ernesto Guevara sculpture complex, which keeps the remains of the Argentinian-Cuban commander and his comrades from the guerrilla in Bolivia in 1967, and which was decorated for the commemoration of this anniversary of universal significance.

Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdes, deputy prime minister and companion of Che in Cuba’s struggles, relatives of the revolutionary fighter, and other leaders of the Cuban Communist Party and Government, were present at the ceremony.

More than two thousand women and men gathered very early in the morning in front of the tribune, which was escorted by a giant bronze statue of Che Guevara.

This site, visited by 5,250,000 people from all over the world, reached its greatest celebrity on October 17, 1997, when the remains of the Heroic Guerrilla and his comrades were placed in a niches in the memorial, in an enclosure where the eternal flame was lit by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.