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Cuban First VP Visits Town where Che Guevara Was Assassinated

CUBA, October 20, 2009. Cuban First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura visited the Bolivian town of La Higuera, where Commander Ernesto Guevara was assassinated 42 years ago.

Machado Ventura said he was deeply moved for being in this historical site, Prensa Latina reported. He visited the school where Che was killed on October 9, 1967, and the museum dedicated to the Cuban-Argentinean guerrilla fighter.

The Cuban First VP was interested in learning about the living conditions of the families in the humble and far off community, located more than 1,000 km from La Paz, the capital.

Machado Ventura, who is also a member of the Cuban Communist Party’s Political Bureau, visited a medical center where two Cuban doctors are providing their services as part of collaboration agreements with Bolivia. He talked with doctors Danay Gonzalez Abreu and Roberto Sanchez Bazan, from the island’s eastern provinces of Camagüey and Granma, respectively.

The doctors explained to him the particular characteristics of dozens of medical consultations they give every day and the assistance they provide for free to local families and others from neighboring communities.

Machado Ventura was accompanied in his tour by the Cuban ambassador to the Andean country, Rafael Dausa, and by members of the island’s medical brigade in Bolivia. (Cubaminrex- ACN)

 

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