FIRST STAGE

“CHÉ, THE GUERRILLA FIGHTER”

(Since the landing of the Granma yacht until the beginning of the Invasion, when he was the Chief of Column No. 8 “Ciro Redondo” – 2 December 1956 - 31 August 1958)

Let’s walk through the paths of history... Let’s find places, events and important figures which are a living testimony of an epopee… Let’s go through the same paths of glory that one day made the young Argentinean doctor, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, become one of the most universal men of the Twentieth Century, an example for the future… We will visit the places where he grew up more as a man and where he was born as a soldier, where he received the name that made him immortal for the hearts and memories of millions of people: CHÉ COMANDANTE (COMMANDER CHÉ) (for more information see “Biographical Notes of Ché” in CHÉ, Ernesto Guevara in Uruguay” by Miguel Aguirre Bayley)

But it is impossible to pretend to follow history step by step, to visit one by one, the many places of the southeast region of the island of Cuba, where he lived two years of fight and vicissitudes, until the achievement – for the first time in the Cuban history – of the definitive National Independence.
That’s why we are going to tell some moments lived by Ché and the other guerrilla fighters who fought against forces superior in number and arms. This army was defeated by a small group of poorly armed young men, but full of liberty dreams and convinced of the justice of their ideals. We cannot do more than that because… HISTORY CANNOT BE REPEATED.