October 9, 2023
photo: Bill Hackwell
The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, praised on Monday the anti-imperialist struggle carried out by Commander Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, who was executed on October 9, 1967 by the Bolivian army. “It is 56 years since the assassination of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, universal symbol of a cause that gathers the resistance and rebellion of the peoples, for the yearning to live in a united and sovereign Latin America,” he said through his X account.
On October 9, 1967, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara was assassinated, executed in a clandestine and summary manner by the Bolivian army, in collaboration with the CIA. His example of courage, dignity, honesty and consequence made him a symbol of the revolutionaries of the world.
Che was born in Rosario, Argentina, on June 14, 1928. He stood out for his great revolutionary spirit and his eagerness to know and solve the problems of the poorest, historically subjected to the oppression and contempt of the social and political classes whose only horizon is the accumulation of goods and privileges through the exploitation of man by man.
He cultivated a great love for literature and poetry, he was always willing to leave notes of his reality, not only in politics but also in sports and culture.
In 1953 he traveled through Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Guatemala, discovering the dominant misery among the masses of Latin America and the omnipresence of U.S. imperialism in the region. In 1955 he met Fidel and Raúl Castro in Mexico, joining the emancipatory struggle that culminated in the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959.
Che was a self-taught Marxist who fought for socialism to replace capitalism. He is the icon of the left in Latin America and the world, he rejected injustices with his rebellion against a system that generated and still generates deep social inequalities.