Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (1928-1967) was a real freedom fighter, not in the sense and way the bourgeois media wants to portrait him –as an adventurer, a “conqueror”, and even worst: a mythical soldier who travelled the world looking for personal fame.  Some says he is a “Red Robin Hood”, “the Quixote of Communism”, the “New Garibaldi”.  But for the Bolivian people he is “Saint Ernesto of La Higuera”, for Africans, “Tatu” from the jungles of Congo; for Cubans, he is simply “Comandante Che Guevara”, as simple as he lived in Cuba. Names are not relevant; his actions and ideas are.

Yet, he could had been a famous and outstanding Medical Doctor.  At 25  years old, he had written dozens of monographies and essays on allergy, asthma, tropical diseases, lepers, etc.  He would have been also an exceptional Politologist, or Social Scientist, because he had the natural gift to foreseeing facts and events of collective reality, like a Prophet crossing the border of knowledge to put into practice his revolutionary thoughts, when he decided to “fight imperialism wherever it is”.

He could had decided to live a fancy life with his family, in a fancy house.  He just simply offer a different alternative: he walked the way as the “Soldier of the Revolution”, and went beyond that, becoming “The Comandante  of the Dispossess Peoples of the World”, to denounce everywhere he went the Imperialism hunger of power.  His speeches has been immortalized at The Tricontinental Conference in Havana, Cuba; at United Nations General Assembly (1964), every time he visited a friendly country.  Death is only a way to cross the frontier to Eternity, not the means to murder him.  Africa was the nourishing Mother preparing him for his journey, not to the marble-like grave, cold as ice, impersonal, but to the final encounter with the Latin American grounds which grew him up for ever. 

Those peace-loving peoples at the “dark spots of the world”, remember his gigantic and everlasting dimension of Man and leader,  who lived a restless life as a revolutionary professional, because this is the only expertise which does not admit resting, the livese and dignity of the have-nots is preserved through it, understanding that the mission of helping others is as important as to become a great scholar or researcher; that the personal endeavour, besides that of other men and women could lead to the redemption for the peoples and to the individual realization for those who can reach it.

UNTIL VICTORY FOREVER, Che “Comandante”, friend and brother in the struggle!!!!         

(ICAP) 05-06-2007