""I feel some thing in life!" "Not just a great interior force but also the power to transmit it too thers." "It's a fatalistic sense of my mission which frees me from all fears." ""Ernesto Che Guevara." "Ernesto Guevara de la Serna is born in Rosario, Argentina on 14 May 1928." "But It's a day on which Ernesto will never celebrate his birthday." "There is a dufferent date on his birth certificate: 14 June." "With a while lie, his parents had decuded to hide a pregnancy out of wedlock." "His mother," "Celia dela Serna, is the heir of a family of landowners related to the aristocracy of Spain and the New World." "A rebellious girl with aristocratic grace, in Buenos Aires she is one of the first women to wear short hair." "She drives a car, signs cheques and crosses her legs in public." "His father, Ernesto Guevara Lynch, is an ice and good-looking young man." "He has in herited the silverof his great grandfather, who took part in the Gold Rush in California." "He is exuberant and very imaginative." "The dela Serna family are dufferent from others." "They're chaotic, generous and intellectually rest less." "Little Ernest, as hew as nicknamed, spends the first two years of his life in animmense garden." "Until one day in the spring of 1930, a day which was to have a significant effect on his future personality." "On 2 May 1930, after bathing in the frozen water of a swimming pool, he suffer shis first asthma attack." "It's the beginning of a curse whichover they ears will force him to forge a niron-like determination." "in1943the del a Sernas move to" "Buenos Aires and Ernesto starts high school." "World War ll is still raging in European d his parents support the solidarity movements for the fight against Nazism." "But Ernesto has yet to become involved in politics." ""I didn't get involved in community activities during my adolescence and I didn't take part in political or student campaings in Argentina."" "Deeply affected by the death of his grandmother in 1947," "Ernesto decides to study medicine at the University of Buenos Aires." "Ex empt from military service because of his asthma," "Ernesto the student plays tennis and golf but excels at rugby." "He plays for Estudiantes of Cordoba with the nickname 'fuser', an abbreviation of' the furious de la Serna'." "With his in born enthusiasm, dispite his asthma, he becomest he leader of the team." "He also found amagazine called 'Tackle' and his byline is 'Chancho' (pig)" "He often boasts that he rarely washes him self and that he once wore the same rugby shirt for 25 weeks in arow." "He takes up a positions as an urse on a tanker, works in the communal slaughter houses and then at the university library." "With a companion, he invents an insecticide which he hopes to commercialize." "At the same time, he takes up an interest in politics." "it is the consequence of his readings, and perhaps also be cause of the turbulent time she's livingin." "The succession of coups d'etat, the rise of Peronin Argentina, and soon..." "So Ernesto starts frequentinga group of Marxsists at university, but never joints the party." "University disappoints him." "He was looking for a vocation..." "They spoke to him of a career." "During the university vacation he decides to visit his friend Alberto Granado on the Sierra to the north of Cordoba" "A medicine graduate," "Alberto works in a leperhospital in San Franciscode Chanar." "Ernesto fixes an engine to his bicycle to make the 850-kilometre journey." "The only things he takes with him are as paretyre, a few clothes and a book," "Cuba, 2 March 1952." "Military coupd' etat." "Supported by the United States," "Colonel Fulghensio Batista com estopower." "Theis land is nicknamed 'the brothel of America'." "Gambling, ptostitution and cabaret," "Cuba is a playground for rich Americans." "For eigners control the entire economy of the island" "Strongly Americanized, capital cityHavana is relatively prospero us." "Huges hanty towns surround the capital." "It's a Completely duff cerenter eality:" "50% of the population is illiterate an the people in the sountry side live in the most absolute conditions of hard ship and poverity." "Pillaging, corruptrion." "Batista is an unscrupulous dictator." "A man of the United States, he is the guarantor of their interests on the island" "At the end of his holidays, Ernesto returns to Buenos Aires." "He crosses the bush and often shares the life of the gauchos." "Ernesto is 23 years old and has almost finished his studies in medicine." "Hungry for discoveries and adventures," "Ernesto decides to unertake another initiator fy journey across the whole of Latin America with his friend Alberto Granado." "On 29 December 1952 they get on an old Norton motorbike,'the mightly'." "On departure, his father drops his revolver among the equipment." "Doctor Granado and his assistant Guevara pass by Chile as they cross the Andes." "The Norton motorbike is already breaking down." "They hitchhike as far as Valparaiso, where they secretly board a freighter." "They go up to wards Bolivia and visit the enormous mines exploited by the United States, which reveals to them the enormous socio-political in justice in the treatment of South American workers." "Their journey continues towards Peru," "Lake Titicaca, Suzco, Machu Picchu and the ninthe direction of the Amazon, where they land at the San Pablo leper-gospital." ""That aim less journey around our" "America changed memore than I thought."" "After travelling together for 7 months, the 2 friends separate." "Ernesto has just one dollar in his pocket and promises his mother Celia that he will return to home to finish his studies." "The freighter that takes him back to" "Buenos Aires is forced to dock in Miami." "While he waits for the ship to be repaired" "Ernesto Guevara has to survive for 20 days with just one dollar." "He completes his doctorate in record time." "But Doctor Guevara doesn't care a bit about this prestigioug institle." "He can't wait to set off again." "Ernesto arrives in Guatemala, where something newish appening." "President Jacopo Arbenz, a progressivist military man, has promised avast programme of reforms." "The most important idea is that of bringing to an end the existence of large estates and nationalizing the properties of United Fruit, a very powerful U S company." "With the support of the Eisenhower administration, the local oligarchy is against the idea." ""A long the way I had the chance to see the" "United Fruit properties." "Onc eagain I was convicted of how terrible these capitalist octopuses are." "I will improve myself and acquire what I need to become an authentic revolutionary."" "in December1953 Ernesto settles in the capital and meets several Cuban exiles who have taken refuge in Guatemala after a failed insurrection attempt" "led by Fidel Castro against the Batista regime" "Led by a young Cuban lawer," "Fidel Castro, they tried to capture the Moncada barracks." "The armed assault resulted in carnage and their leader was captured and condemned to fifteen years in prison." "in remembrance of the Moncada assault, the group decide to call the mselves the '26 July Movement'." "15 June 1954." "The Eisenhower administration gives th ego-ahead to 'Operation Success', a CIA plan which has financed the opposition to the government and trained apar a military force to invade the country." "The situation precipitates in the space of a few weeks." "Jacopo Arbenz resign sand leaves the country in the hands of a new military government which is loyal to" "American strategic interests." "These are dangerous times for supporter sof" "Arben'z progressivist government." "Ernesto decides to move to Mexico, where his life reaches a turn in g-point." "While Cuba is rocked bythe student protests against" "Batista's corrupt regime, Fidel Castro is unexpextedly freed from prison and immediately joint shis companions in Mexico." "7 July 1955." "Mexico City." "'Meeting Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro was apolitical event." "An intelligent boy, he's very sure of himself and is extraordinarily courageo us." "I think there's mutual respect between us."" "When Ernesto meets the volcanic Fidel," "It's love at first sight." "Castro is look in g-for a doctor to jount he group of revolutionaries that will land in Cuba to overthrow dictator Batista." "Guevara doesn't think twice." ""He will carry out the revolution." "We're in perfect harmony." "I would only give every thing of myself for some one like him."" "At that time, Ernesto was financially dependent on Hilda Gadea, a woman who belonged to the left wing of the Pruvian party which was the reinexile." "Just after he meets Fidel Castro," "Hilda tells Che that she's pregnant." "He writes in his diary tha the would have married he rout of dignity." ""From15 February 1956 I am a father." "My Communist soul expands in an excessive manner, the baby girl came out just like Mao Zedomg." "At the moment she weighsless than Mao, but she will grow."" "At last Castro finds a boat to reach Cuba." "The 'Granma'is an old cabin cruiser." "On board the reale 79 Cuban revolutionaries and three foreigners:" "globe trotting Argentine doctor" "Ernesto Guevara, Dominican Ramon Mejias, also known as Pichirillo, and Italian Gino Donewho, out of work after the war, takes flight." "Everything is ready for departure." "2 December1956..." ""It wasn't a landing, it was as hip wreck."" "The 82 people that land on the Cuban coastline are decimated by the initial skirmishes with the army." "The dozen that survive hide in the Sierra Maestra, a massif 130 kilometres long and 50 kilometres wide" "Up against a 4,000-strong modern army, the guerrillas establish relationships with the 'campesinos' peasants." "which progresively boost their ranks." ""It was our baptism of fire, the beginning of the formation of what was to become the rebel army."" ""Right during the shoot-out I found myself in front of arucksack full of medicine and acrate of ammunition." "The weight stopped me from taking both." "I took the crate of ammunition and left the rucksack."" "in battle, Ernesto Che Guevara finds his missing part" "He discovers heis un afraid of dying and plays a fundamental role in the development and survival of the rebel army." "One day a spy among the rebel army was discovered it was one of the peasants who had voluntarity joined up." "The trait or is unmaskes and condemned to death, but no body is prepared to carry out the execution." "Che volunteers him self and writes about it in his diary, describing the size of the wound caused by the bullet, and how the bullet enterned and exited them an's brain." "He writes about how calmly he slept that night, with out asthma attacks." "With out any advance notice," "Fidel names Ernesto 'commander'." "It's the highest military positions in the rebel army." ""There's a bit of vanity inside everyone of us." "This appointment made me feel the most important man on Earth."" "From that moment Ernesto is known by everybody as 'commander' 'Guevara'." "With his men Che installs a radiotransmitter and the typography of a newspaper to spread the world about the actions and conquests of the rebel army." "Radio 'Rebelde' brings the voice of the revolutionaries to the whole island" "The message is simple:" "'freedom or death'." "Commander Guevara set sup an out and out arms factory which produces bullets, grenades and evena home-made'M-26' weapon which is thrown from a catapult constructed with the spring so fan underwater fishing gun." "inside the Liberated zone the rebels pay for their purchases with coupouns signed by Ernesto Guevara." "Che is a visitory, a mystic, while Fidel is a pragmatist are al is tand an obstinate politician." "Che has no political or diplomatic ability." "He doesn't mince his world sand makes enemies in next to no time." "If he doesn't like some one hetells them directly." "He's combative, ideological and really does think he can change the world" "in the summer Fidel Castro's guerrillas leave the mountain sand take their fight to the plains" "Commander Guevara's colimn takes control of Ladvias province." "The island is now split in two" ""It's very, very difficult to advance..." "Our comrades 'physical conditions are worsening, and eating nowand then certainly doesn't help to improve the miserable situation we find our selves in."" "it is in this region, considere da starting point of the revolution, where he meet shis future girlfrend" "Aleida March." "She is a young and very beautiful woman who joined these cret'26 July Movement' in Santa Clara." "Aleida arrived at the battle ground, where she found Che Guevara, and spent several days there." "They became lovers in the mountains." "By Christmas, the war is practically won." "Only the city of Santa Clara, the corner-stone of Batista's defence, is still to be taken." "29 December 1958 The battle commences." "Guevara's colimn besieges the city." "The regular army draw sup thousands of soldiers and an armoured train, which the dictator considers his secret weapon against the revolution." "Machine guns spit death from the tureets." "Suicides quads do use them with petrol." "The armour-plating becomes a noven for the soldiers, who decide to surrender." ""They all surrended in just a few hours, with their 22 wagons, can nons, machineguns and fantastic ammunition supplies."" "At dawn on 1 January 1959, Fulghenzio Batista flies to the Dominican Republic, taking with him an authentic fortune." "He leaves the country in the hand so familitary junta which use less lyproposes an arm ist ice to Fidel Castro." "The rebel army is already march in towards Havana" "3 January 1959." "Commander Guevara's colimn enters the capital." "The popular enthusiasm is overwhelming." "Several day slater Fidel Castro also makes his triumph ant arrival in Havana" "The revolution of the 'barbudos', as by nowe very one calls the Sierra rebels, has won." "Che is nominated military governor of the Cabana fortress which faces Havana it is also where the revolutionary courts are setup." "it is here tha Batista's executioners are put on trial" "With his consent, Che becomes supreme prosecutor." "Hundreds are summarily executed after the trial" "Ernesto Che Guevara is just 30 years old and is already legendary." "The foreigner, the Argentine, as they called himin Cuba, would soon receive Cuban citizenship thanks to a clause in the new constitution written especially for him." "Together with a few trusted companions," "Guevara works on the creation of asecret service for the security of the state." "By order of Fidel, he prepares the agrarian reform promised to the peasants by the revolutionaries." "He is nominated minister for industry and findsh imself leafing the ambitious" "Cuba industrialization programme." ""To setup an industrialization process," "Cuba must first recuperate Its natural resources which were given to foreign consortium by the" "Batista dictatorship and we must be prepared for the reaction of those who to day control 75% of our trade and market."" "Guevara has clear ideas on the path to take to assert the revolutionary ideals." "Redistribution of land to the peasants." "The end of the sugar monoculture." "Nationalization of foreign enterprises." "Centralplaining of the economy." "The social programmes include a massive alphabetization campaign." "Trains transport thousands of volunteers from all over the island who want to learn to read and write." "in 1959, 40% of Cubans are illiterate" "It's a spectacul armarch which is supported by Unesco." "Disarmed to avoid any form of criticism, the allegoric alarmy dances and sings to the rhythm of the slogans which ask free education for all, which will also guarantee national unity for a long time to come." "Guevara is also appointed president of the National Bank of Cuba." "His work tempo becomes legendary." "From time to time he writes to his parents" ""Dear folks, It's 6:30 in the morning and I'm taking a break" "It's not the start of the day, but the end." "On the other hand, we are the future and we know it." "We built with joy, even though we've forgotten our nearest and dearest."" "After divorcing Hilda Gadea," "Che marries his new companion Aleida March, who will give him four more children." "12 June 1959." "Che leaves for the first of his long trips as worldwide ambassador of the Cuban revolution." "He travels extensively in search of new diplomatic and, a boveall, commercial relationships." "Strict with himself, he decides to leave Aleida at home, but is reget ful when from India he writes to his mother." ""I have to talk about political and economic problems." "I take part in receptions where Ieven have to we are dinner suit." "On top of all this, I'm with out Aleida, who I couldn't bring because of the many mental complexes I suffer from."" "in the mean time, in Cuba the nationalization of foreign enterprises and agrarian expropriations continue." "The United States becomes in creasing worried about the progres so frelations between Cuba and the Soviet Union." "Divergences with Washington become increasingly deeper." "It's the mostserious attack ever on Cubans oil." "On 4 March, a French freighter laden with ammunition exploides." "The weapons were bought from Belgium." "80 peoplelos et heir Lives." "Fidel Castro accuses the United States, which immediately denies responsibility." "Two weeks later," "Eisenhower approves a secret plan to overthrow Castro." "There was widespread speculation about the" "United States hostility towards the harsh methods used by the Cuban revolution." "These images intensify the Cuban anti-Americanism and Fidel takes a dvantage of the situation to justify his policy." "Cuba takes on the image of the victim, and gradually, in the name of national security, the revolution changes face." "The Americans radically reduce sugar imports, which provokes are conciliation with the Soviets." "On 19 October the United States imposes atrade embargo against the island" "3 days after the announcement of the American embargo," "Che Guevara leaves for his first journey to the" "Communist Block countries." "He must as sure the sale of Cuban sugar and obtain credit for the construction of new factories" "in China he is welcome!" "with full honours." "On the airport runway vice president Zhou Enlai receives him." "But it is in the Soviet Union that" "Guevaras tops the longest." "He visits Moscow, Leningrad and even finds time for some sight seeing." "He meets an infinite number of people, soldiers and workers." "He watches a performance at the Bolshoi theatre." "He meets Nikita Kruchev." "He is even invited onto the Presidium balcony in Red Squere to admire the military parade on 7 November." "in the meantime, the atmosphere in Cuba has changed." "The state now controls banks, education, transport, industry and agriculture." "The humanist face of the revolution has become toug he randwell-off Cubans leave the country." "The anti-Castrist front widens." "Opponents of the revolution reorganize." "Old soliders of the Batista dictatorship," "Iandowners and rebel officials of the army." "in all, there are 3,000 men." "Officially they are all United States agents." "On 15 April, the CIA bombards the airports in Havana and Santiago." "7 people die." "The already meagre Cuban aviation loses 5 aircraft." "It's a time of complots to assassinate Castro, attempts to subvert the new Cuban power with the support of the CIA." "And the disastrous shipment to the" "Bay of Pigs end or sed by new president John F. Kennedy." "in Havana, heavy artillery is positioned along the Malecon sea front, while 35 thousand people accused of hostile acts against the regime a red etained by the police and revolutionary defence committees." "The CIA was hoping that an anti-Castrist insurrection would favour invasion." "it didn't turn out like this." "August 1961." "At Punta Delestein Uruguay, a conference of the Organization of American" "States is held and Guevara does everything he can to be noticed." "Tothe American journalists he gives a message for president Kennedy." ""Thanks for Plata Ghiron." "Before the invasion the revolution was shaky." "Now It's stronger than ever."" "The United States delegation head's speech was vague and with out substance." "Guevara had brought the Cold War to Uruguay and attacked the United States." "The reference to complots financed by the United States is crystal clear and the consequences are just around the corner." "Americas tops all aid to countries that maintain relations with Cuba, and several months later, the Organization of the American States expels Cuba." "in the mean time, another of Guevara's battles begins." "He promotes the creation of a new Socialist man'role model." "He calls it 'the new man', an unselfish and solid figure prepared to give everything for the community." "As a demonstration, he launches the volunteer work experiment." "After the Bay of Pigs, Castro is persuaded that the" "United Statesis preparing to invade Cuba an dasks Moscow for military protection." "Whos wide a wasit to install nuclear missiles on theis land?" "Castro's or Kruchev's?" "The Cubans say it was the Soviets, and vice versa." "Che begins to realise that the Soviet Union is a country full of defects and he feels increasingly frustrated in dealing with them." "He wants to built a steel works in Cuba, he wants the Soviets to help Cuba develop the spirit of Socialist egalitarianism and solidarity among comrades." "He wants to be supported in his idea of creating 'the new man', the true Communist, and he wants Cuba to be free at last." "He doesn't man age to accomplish any one of the sethings, and a conflict arises between Che Guevara and the orthodox Cuban Commuinists that support Moscow." "October1962." "in Cuban waters there is the threat of another world war." "It's the missile crisis, and the Castro revolution realises It's a pawn in every big chess game." "For Guevara It's the sign that some thing has changed." "His initial enthusiasm for the Soviet model has faded." "His economic objectives never take off." "With his idea of a new Socialist man, he is considered utopian." "He nolonger feel she is indispensable in Cuba." "Guevara feels that the need to return to the battle field of the worldwide revolution is stronger than ever." "On 11 December 1964, the Cuban revolutionary is in New York and represents Cuba at the" "United Nations General Assembly." "Cuban exiles welcome him with extremely violent protests." "Guevara has arrived to announce an other campaign of revolutionary battles and the tenor of his worlds leave no doubts." "The image which could be got though the revolution, the hope of a better world, the image which is worth to riskone's life and to sacrifice one's life until death, in those battle fields of all the continent of the world..." "25 February 1965 in Algiers speaks about the third world" "He makes a very harsh speech." "He accuses Socialist superprowers China and the Soviet Union of applying principles of capitalism in commercial dealings with developing countries." "It's his last public speech." "I saw the national movement by Fidel," "I will keep on fighting!" ""The development of countries that are at the beginning of their path to Liberation must be paid for by Socialist countries." "Socialism can not exist with out a new fraternal attitude to wards humanity." "Che is no longer under any illusions." "His great chalenge is under way." "Fiercely determined, he set sout to show the world what proletarian Internationalism real lyis." "in Cuba his life seems to continue as before." "Few know that he is about to leave and that he may never return." "in the mean time, Fidel Castro adopts a cautions stance." "in public he talks of pacific coexistence, while in private he says lf Che could plaint ther evolutionary flag some where else he'd have left him free to act." "Guevara leaves several farewall letters." "One of these is for Fidel." ""I leave here the purest of my hopes as a builder and the dearest of those I hold dear." "I carry to new battle fronts the faith that you taugh tme."" "1 April 1965" "Ernesto Che Guevara leaves for Africa." "Three weeks later here aches the Congoleses hores of Lake Tanganyka, where he meet san unexpected really." ""Noone has thes lightest idea of what a fire armis." "They shoot while playng with their weapons or because of care less ness."" "Disagreements with in the anti-government movement stop" "Guevara from organizing military action." "Weeks, months of in tertia follow." "After 7 months of almost no fighting and the frustrating impossibility of training the local soldiers," "Guevara makes a bitter and self-critical analysis." ""I learned a lot in Congo." "And I left with more faith than ever in the guerrills fight." "But we failed."" "22 November 1965" "Che leaves Congo and secretly returns to Cuba, but his mission to libewrate oppressed populations is not over." "He so on decides on Bolivia." "A military junta has just come to power." "Clashes, protests and demonstrations inflame the country." "The CIA thinks he's in hospital in the Soviet Union." "With the help of the Cuban secret services," "Guevara transforms himself into a middle-class forty something." "He wears thick-lensed glasses, he's half baldand his eye brows are thicker." "To seem shorter he takes out the insides of the heel son his shoes." "With roughly fifty men he looks to setup a training base." "On 7 November the men built a funnel to hide providions and materials." "Instead of supporting the guerrillas, the Bolivian Communist party launches a dissuasion campaign." ""The situation is not good but a new stage of test begins for the guerrills and it willd o her good lf they overcome it."" "Months pass, in pursuit of an descaping from the army, which seems to be everything." "The comrades losses become increasingly higher." "Che is ill." "He can hard ly walk" "His has lost about a third of his body weight." "He's emaciated and famished." "He's different." "He's no longer as attentive and cautions as he used to be." "August 1967." "increasingly alone, the guerrillas try to flee north wards." "They reach the mountains and it looks like their safe." "September 1967." "The town of Vaie grande at the heart of Bolivia becomes the base for the Bolivian army's anti-guerrilla operations." "Commander Guevara moves into the open, with few precautions and apparently without a plan." "His diary entries in these days contain worlds for Aleida." "They seem written by a man aware that he is marching towards his own end." ""The best bullet of this pistol which has always accompanied me, the indelible memory of the children that one day you and I conceived and the fragment of life that remains of me..." "I give this to ther evolution." "Not hing whic his capable of uniting used never have a greater power."" "26 September." "The guerrillas arrive in the village of La Higuera, a piece of land between 2 mountains where there are only women and children." "The peasants have fled after being warned of the army's arrival." "The guerrillas are ambushed by the army." "3 comrades are killed and 2 wounded." "On 7 October commander Guevara is optomiostic and writes what is destined to be the last page in his diary." ""It has now been 11 months since the start of the guerrills movement." "It's a day with out problems." "Bucolic."" "There are 17 of them left." "That night Che picks up a Chilean radiostation." "it appeats there are 1,800 Bolivian soliders" "looking for them in the mountains." "8 October 1967." "Surrounded by 2 companies of Bolivian rangers in the" "Churogorge Che Guevara is shotin the" "leg and captured." "A bullet has destroyed the cylinder of his rifle and Che can't use his weapon." "He's led to the village of La Higuera, where he is imprisoned in a school." "Che Guevara remains on the floor of the school during the night between 8 and 9 October." "His hands and feet are bound." "The bodies of his friends lie next to him." "9October." "At 12:30 a radio message from the" "Bolivian High Command in La Paz reads:" "'Proceed with the elimination of Senor Guevara.'" "The order is signed by the president of the" "Bolivian military government." "A meeting took place to decide what to do with Che Guevara and it was decuded he must die." "The order is transmitted in code to CIA agent Felis Rodriguez." "The agent enterned the room and said simply to Guevara:" "Sergeant Mario Teransi volunteers to carry out the order." "It's 10 minutes past 1 in the after noon." "With a semi-automatic pistol he fires at Che's arms," "legs then chest." "It's 9 October 1967." "Ernesto Che Guevara was 39 years old." "The body is riddled with bullets." "The body is tightly fastened to a helicopter skid for its final journey." "When hear rivesin Vaiegrande, hi seyes are still wide open." "The soldiers call a photographer to immortalize the moment." "The first journalists and curious people arrive." "Several people secretly cut off small locks of hair as good luck charms." "News of the death breaks in Cuba." "The radio reports that commander Guevara died from battle wounds." "Fidel Castro still hasm any doubts." "He doesn't believe it." "15 October." "Fidel receives the photos of Che Guevara's corpse." "He is now sure the reports about his death are true." "in a moved voice he addresses the Cuban people and passionately remembers the fallen comrade." "If weneed a role model of people, a role model of people who not only belongs to this generation, a role model of people who belongs to the future." "With all my heart, I would say this role model, without any stain in his behavior," "without any stain in his attitude without any stain in his performance." "This role model is Che!" "If we want to express what kind of people we hope our children will be." "We can shout it with all our hearts, vehemently and revolutionarily." "We want them to be like Che!" "Toour im mortal hero." "Toour heroic guerilla." "30 years after the tragic death in Bolivia, the remains of Che Guevara have returned to Cuba." "With that regime rhetorictha the certainly wouldn't have liked, the Cuban population paid ho mage to him." "The romantic image of there volutionary, his face and his world shave become part of the popular imaginary." "Legend has consigned him to history as a young rebel." "Ernesto Che Guevara has beat en death." "He knew it!" "He had already understood it that that day when he said to the soldier who came to kill him:" ""I know you've come here to killme!" "Shoot." "You're only killing a man."" "Now this anonymous mass, this America of color, shadyplacetacti turn, who sings to the continent with a same sadnes sanddis illusion, now this mass is the one that begins to enter definitively is its own history," "it begins to write with its blood, it begins to sufferand to die because now by the fields and the mountains of America by the skirts of its mountain ranges, their plain sand their forests, between the solitude and the traffic of its cities," "in the coasts of the great oceans an drivers begins to shake this world plenty of hot hearts with hot fists with desire of dying for their own cause and the others, to conquer their rights, which was deceived for almost 500 years" "For this great humanity has said "enough"" "and has started to move for ward." "And their march, the march of giants, can not stop, will not stop until they have conquered their true independence, for which many have already died, and not use lessly." "in any event, those who die will die" "like those in Cuba, at Playa Giron;" "they will die for their never-to-be-renounced, their only true independence."