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On the 66th anniversary of Che Guevara’s first volunteer work

“Working, producing, creating, and fighting is the best summary of these hours

On the 66th anniversary of Che Guevara’s first volunteer work, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and the Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz, led productive days

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

november 24, 2025 09:11:55

Photo: Alejandro Azcuy

Yesterday, November 23, on the lands of the Los Tamarindos Agroindustrial Company in the province of Artemisa, the tranquility of a Sunday morning was disrupted by the enthusiasm of those who, despite having a busy week ahead, refuse to give up on finding prosperity for Cuba through daily effort, as Che Guevara demonstrated.
Among those men and women was the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez. After seven days of systematic dedication to the recovery of the eastern provinces hit by Hurricane Melissa, of dialoguing with scientists and experts to find solutions to arboviruses, of receiving visitors, remembering history, and following up on matters of national priority, the Head of State joined the national volunteer work day on Sunday. He did so, combining family and duty, alongside his wife, Lis Cuesta Peraza.
Several times a year, these unpaid productive days take place, but this Sunday, November 23, was doubly special, as it coincided with the 66th anniversary of the first volunteer work carried out by Commander Ernesto Che Guevara in Caney de las Mercedes, in the territory of the current Granma municipality of Bartolomé Masó, to work on the construction of the Camilo Cienfuegos School City.
In the Artemisa region, very close to Havana, and together with his comrades from the Central Committee —among them Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of Organization— the First Secretary devoted himself to planting food crops.

In Artemisa, Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and Morales Ojeda joined the national volunteer work day on Sunday. Photo: Alejandro Azcuy Photo: Granma
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Cuba pays tribute to its heroes with Camilo-Che Commemorative Days

Workers, students and the population of all Cuban provinces will pay tribute this Monday to their heroes in the context of the Camilo-Che Commemorative Days, which will be held until October 28.

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october 9, 2023 11:10:14

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Photo: Juvenal Balán
Photo: Juvenal Balán

Havana, October 9 (RHC)– Workers, students and the population of all Cuban provinces will pay tribute this Monday to their heroes in the context of the Camilo-Che Commemorative Days, which will be held until October 28.
The tributes began the day before with voluntary work in productive centers to remember the Cuban-Argentine guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara, on the 56th anniversary of his capture and subsequent assassination in 1967, when he was participating in the struggle for the liberation of Bolivia.
In the central city of Santa Clara, a city liberated by Che’s troops, tribute was paid to the man also known here as the Heroic Guerrilla, in the Memorial that keeps his remains together with those of his comrades in the Bolivian heroic deed.
These initiatives include talks, youth debates and patriotic acts, among other cultural, sports and political activities, and will culminate with the traditional throwing of flowers into the sea, on the date of the physical disappearance of Commander Camilo Cienfuegos in a plane crash in 1959.
It was precisely Commander Ernesto Guevara, Cienfuegos’ boss, friend and comrade, the promoter of the beautiful tradition that summons Cubans every October 28 to the coasts, rivers and streams throughout the country to remember the man he called the Lord of the Vanguard. The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, led the first massive tribute to Camilo Cienfuegos from the reefs of Havana’s Malecon in 1960.
The untimely death of Camilo and Che while carrying out revolutionary missions turned them into symbols of commitment and dedication to the cause initiated in Cuba on January 1, 1959, after the triumph of the Rebel Army against the tyranny of dictator Fulgencio Batista. (Source:PL)

Antonio Maceo, Che Guevara

Two giants twinned by history: Antonio Maceo Granjales and Ernesto “Che” Guevara de la Serna


Two giants twinned by history
Two giants who share a birth date and common ideals. Two men who both, in different times, dignified our country’s past to illuminate our present and future. Two heroes of the Revolution who are June children, Antonio Maceo Granjales and Ernesto “Che” Guevara de la Serna

Author: Mailenys Oliva Ferrales | informacion@granmai.cu
june 14, 2022 10:06:32



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photocomposition: Carlos M. Perdomo
Distances matter little – in time and kilometers – if two names remain eternal in the memory of a country, fused as the same reference of integrity and courage. Two giants that history has twinned beyond a shared birth date and common ideals. Two men who both, in different times, dignified our country’s past to illuminate our present and future. Two heroes of the Revolution who are June children, Antonio Maceo Granjales and Ernesto “Che” Guevara de la Serna.
In Santiago de Cuba the first was born. It was 1845 when the Maceo family baptized the boy who would become a renowned Mambí leader in Cuba’s wars of independence.
The second came into the world exactly 83 years later. They called him Ernesto, although his memorable life would earn him another international qualification, since that little boy, born in 1928, would leave his native Rosario, in Argentina, at a very young age to heal the “wounds” of a ravaged America.
Their extraordinary lives were amazing and have become legendary.
Maceo fought more than 600 battles and bore on his body 26 scars of war; while Guevara made very much his own the epic feats of the Granma yacht, the Sierra Maestra and the Cuban Revolution, before going off to fight for the freedom of Congo and Bolivia.
San Pedro was not the end for Maceo, just as La Higuera was not for Che. We will carry the memory of the former’s firm voice in Baraguá insisting “No, we don’t understand each other” before an enemy who sought to disrespect our homeland; and the latter who, looking his executioner in the eyes, ordered: “Shoot, there is a man here.”
To them both we say, Cuba contemplates you proudly.

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Ernesto Che Guevara: His path to making history in the Americas

Ernesto Che Guevara: His path to making history in the Americas
A necessary historical, biographical, military atlas
Author: Mireya Castañeda | internet@granma.cu
march 22, 2017 09:03:22

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The Atlas histórico, biogra?fico y militar Ernesto Guevara, by authors Reinaldo Espinosa Goitizolo and Guillermo Grau Guardarrama.

THE figure of Ernesto Che Guevara awakens great passions and has become a symbol of universal appeal. One of his portraits, from the lens of Alberto Korda, is one the world’s most reproduced images.
This year, the tragic date of October 9 seems even more piercing: 50 years since his assassination in La Higuera, Bolivia. Despite the dozens of books written about Che, the search for information leads inevitably to the Atlas histórico, biográfico y militar Ernesto Guevara, by authors Reinaldo Espinosa Goitizolo and Guillermo Grau Guardarrama, published in Havana, in 1990, by the Pueblo y Educación house, with the support of the Cuban Institute of Geodesy and Cartography.

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