[NYTr] 2008: Intl Year of Che in Argentina Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 18:02:16 -0500 (CDT) Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit ["Fading" legacy, Reuters? Not in Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, much of Asia and Africa, and certainly not in Cuba. -NY Transfer] Prensa Latina, Havana http://www.plenglish.com 2008: Intl Year of Che in Argentina Rosario, Argentina, Oct 9 (Prensa Latina) Next year will be International Year of Che in Rosario, Argentina, Santa Fe Gov. Jorge Obeid announced on Tuesday at a gathering paying tribute to Ernesto Che Guevara on the 40th anniversary of his assassination. Obeid said that activities scheduled to commemorate Che's 80th birthday (June 14) will pay tribute to one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humankind. It will also be a recognition for the government, the State and the people of Cuba, because Che fought for a Revolution that became reality, made progress and remains, despite the US blockade, military actions and discrimination. Obeid presented two copies of the Che Year Proclamation to Cuban Embassy Political Consul Francisco Delgado, one of them to be given to President Fidel Castro. "This is for Commander Fidel Castro, with the hope that, by the way he"s been recovering from his illness, next year we may have him here, too," he told journalists. hr ccs rma rmh PL-38 *** Chilean Hero: Che Legacy Spurs Youth Santiago de Chile, Oct 9 (Prensa Latina) Harry Villegas (Pombo), a former guerilla with Ernesto Guevara, affirmed Tuesday that Che's revolutionary struggle has become a battle weapon for young people, who follow his example of social commitment. In front of a large crowd of foreign correspondents at Chile's Unitary Workers Central, the Hero of the Republic of Cuba asserted that the internationalist Argentine-Cuban is a model to create more human and equal societies. Villegas expressed gratitude for the several activities of remembrance carried out by the people of Chile and by Chilean political and social organizations in Che's name within the framework of the 40th anniversary of his death in Bolivia. He also affirmed this visit allowed him to recall scenes from the northern cities of Arica and Iquique, after the capture and murder of the heroic guerrilla in Bolivia in 1967 at the orders of imperialism. In response to a question, Villegas said that Che would be very proud and would also be on the side of the Latin American peoples, among them Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua, who are constructing more human and democratic societies. hr ccs gd obf PL-46 *** Guatemala to Launch Che Book Guatemala, Oct 9 (Prensa Latina) A compilation of 20 poems written by Che will be launched in Guatemala Tuesday on occasion of the 40th anniversary of the physical disappearance of the legendary commander. "The aim of the book is to show Che"s humanist aspect, not only that of the guerrilla fighter," his author Marco Vinicio Mejias told Prensa Latina. Many of those poems were written by Ernesto Guevara during his trip to Guatemala in late 1953, attracted by the process of change in this country, known as "the decade of the Democratic Spring." "Che Guevara, poesia completa" (Che Guevara, Complete Poetry) is the title of the volume, which also includes a Pablo Neruda essay, as well as poems by Nicolas Guillen, Jose Lezama Lima, Julio Cortazar, Mario Benedetti, Jose Saramago, Roque Dalton and Thomas Merton, among others. "Che was a man with absolute moral coherence, a man who acted as he thought," said Mejias, who also highlighted, among his qualities, austerity, solid formation and his internationalist spirit. ef iff car mf PL-5 *** Namibia, Ecuador Honor Che Windhoek, Oct 9 (Prensa Latina) The Namibian people recalled heroic guerrilla fighter Ernesto Che Guevara in a ceremony that closed the world drive for solidarity with five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters serving unfair prison terms in the US. National Hero Andimba Toivo ya Toivo, also president of the Namibian-Cuban Friendship Association, led this country's homage to the internationalist legendary combatant. Che's example and legacy have been expressed in the performance of the Five, who for defending their principles, have been condemned to harsh sentences, participants in the event stated. Meanwhile in Ecuador, Jose Regato, father of that country's ten-verse country music, paid tribute to heroic guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara in the 40th anniversary of his death in Bolivia. Inspired in his ideas and figures, Regato dedicated one of his songs to the Argentinean-Cuban commander. ef iff lgo arc mf PL-17 *** Panama Daily Headlines Che Legend Panama, Oct 9 (Prensa Latina) The influential Panamanian newspaper La Prensa headlined on Tuesday Ernesto Guevara's image as still a universal symbol of rebellion four decades after his death. In an extensive article "The Guerrilla Paradigm," the daily refers to Che's work until his assassination in Bolivia and the impact of his revolutionary legend. The article by Aristides Cajar states that the man died and the myth was born the date of the crime in La Higuera. After a detailed retelling of his life, the military feat in Cuba and his campaigns in Congo and Bolivia, the article points out that his remains are buried in the central Cuban province of Santa Clara, and a kind of curse haunts those involved in his assassination. hr ccs iff ln PL-30 * ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us Our main website: http://www.blythe.org List Archives: http://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/ Subscribe: http://blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr =================================================================