Cuba Begins Yearlong Celebration of ‘Che’
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HAVANA — Cuba has begun a yearlong celebration of “Che” Guevara, the Marxist hero who died 20 years ago fighting for a revolution he hoped would sweep Latin America.
The “national celebration of homage” to Ernesto Guevara, the Argentina-born physician and Marxist ideologue who was killed in October, 1967, in Bolivia, was announced Sunday on the 59th anniversary of his birth.
The celebration marks a further stage in President Fidel Castro’s Process of Rectification campaign, launched last year to renew Marxist discipline in Cuba, a Cuban official said.
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