By Rubén G. Abelenda (*)
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, Che for the majority of the inhabitants of this world, continues to march gloriously along the paths of Africa, as he did in the past century during his struggles for the independence of this continent, because the new generations carry him permanently in his heart and thought.
Those who killed him on October 8, 1967 in Bolivian lands by order of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States, could never imagine how dear and admired the Heroic Guerrilla would be today in every corner of the planet earth, and particularly in this region, sacked and beaten by colonialism and neo-colonialism.
To mention Che in Africa is to say an example, dignity, courage, altruism, humanism, and his image is observed and felt everywhere, represented in millions of young people who are still struggling, in difficult conditions, for a better world, such as he always wanted, and for whom he fought and gave his intense life.
But it is not only the new generations of Africans who dignify Che in the so-called black continent. Thousands of young Galen and Cuban health technicians who fight death daily walk along these paths and give lives to the most dispossessed.
They, the children of Fidel Castro, and who when children in their schools on the Island repeated «we want to be like Che», today they fulfill that promise because they have become the heroic guerrillas of these times, whom, of course, states United fears a lot, and for that reason tries to discredit them with its continuous defamatory campaigns.
In the “new pines” and in each of the thousands of members of the Pacific Army of Batas Blancas de Cuba, as they deservedly call the Medical Brigades of the Caribbean nation, Washington sees the dreams and desires of Ernesto Guevara, of Fidel and other idols in Africa, such as South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela.
That is why the brutal northern empire attacks the heroic guerrillas of this 21st century, who only carry as weapons the instruments necessary to diagnose diseases, their rifles, and the medicines to cure them, their ammunition.
Of course, they also carry moral shields, more powerful than the most sophisticated missile rockets, and always remember that farewell letter from Che to Fidel in which he underlined the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution:
(*) Ambassador of Cuba in the Gambia
"An Island on a Continent" 