Prensa Latina, Havana

Havana, Oct 8 (Prensa Latina) Cuban President Fidel Castro termed Commander Ernesto Che Guevara an exceptional combatant and a mastermind of consciences in our America and the world, on the the 40th anniversary of his death. In his article Monday entitled "Che," the Cuban Revolution leader highlighted the revolutionary struggle and example left by the heroic guerrilla fighter, of whom he said: he still fights with us and for us.

Havana, Oct 9 (acn) "The ideals and actions of Commander Ernesto Guevara are examples for those who defend equality and justice," said Bolivian President Evo Morales in his closing speech of the main rally to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the death of the revolutionary leader held on Monday in Valle Grande, Bolivia.

by Mahir Ali
ZNet
October 09, 2007

IN a small Bolivian town called Vallegrande, somewhat to the discomfiture of the resident priest, local Catholics commonly offer prayers not only to the Lord but also to a certain Saint Ernesto. The reference is not to some revered religious figure from the distant past but to a devout atheist who blazed a revolutionary trail in the latter half of the 20th century.

New Statesman

Juan de Marcos González, founder of the Buena Vista Social Club, Gavin Turk , a British artist who has used the image of Che Guevara in his work, Gary Hart, former US presidential candidate and author of I, Che Guevara, and Evo Morales answer the question, "Who is Che to you?"

Greg Grandin, a history professor at New York University, is the author of several books on American influence in Latin America, most recently last year’s Empire’s Workshop.

NY Daily News

An intimate memoir of Che Guevara by his widow is making the rounds of New York publishers this week as the 40th anniversary of his death approaches.

Aleida March tenderly describes the man behind the revolutionary icon in her manuscript, "Evocation." Her book details her experiences falling in love, marrying and raising four children with Guevara, who was killed in Bolivia at age 39.

Remembering His Death, Celebrating His Life

On October 9, 1967, 40 years ago today, Che Guevara was assassinated in Bolivia by his CIA-assisted and -directed captors.

He told the frightened soldier who was sent to execute him in the small room where Che lay, seriously wounded: “I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man."

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Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent
Tuesday October 2, 2007 | The Guardian

The Bolivian soldier who executed Che Guevara 40 years ago has had his sight restored by Cuban doctors, turning him into an unlikely advertisement for the revolutionary's ideals.

It isn’t hard to see why Che Guevara retains his relevance today. The need for the victory of ideas that Che fought for, his vision of a better world, the struggle for human liberation, has never been so great. Following the legacy of Che, revolution is once again back on the agenda in Latin America, led by Venezuela, showing that you can kill the revolutionary, but never the revolution.

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Subcomandante Marcos

...[In] the mid-1970s...anti-Castro Cubans bombed and shot their way through the hemisphere. The leading star of the 1970s terrorist show...was Luis Posada Carriles...Good reasons abound for [U.S.] officials to feel reluctant to charge Posada with terrorism. As soon as they open the files, they discover the U.S. government had trained and encouraged him to practice terrorism as a vocation...