Először is, kellemes húsvéti ünnepeket kívánok mindenkinek!

A Che Guevara Siempre egyik csodás látogatója, Shams, olyan kedves volt múlt este, hogy megosztott velem egy fantasztikus videót - amit most megosztok veletek.
A filmecske néhány csodálatos és ritka anyagot tartalmaz Che-ről - nemcsak a Kubán belüli és kívűli utazásairól, hanem egy rövid, valódi exkluzív felvételt a Sierra Maestra-ban töltött napokról!
Az audio anyag válogatás néhány beszédéből.
Még egyszer, nagyon köszönöm, Shams!

[Megnézem a videót]
 

First of all, I would like to wish a happy Easter to everyone!

One of the amazing visitors of Che Guevara Siempre, called Shams, was so lovely that last night she shared a fantastic video with me - that I am going to share with you.
It contains some wonderful and rare footage of Che - not only during his visits around and outside Cuba, but some early, exclusive material from the Sierra Maestra!
The audio is a compilation of his speeches.
Thank you, Shams, so much, again!

[Check out the video]
 

I have found an article (in Spanish language) in which the author, Victor Arrogante remembers Che Guevara and his oldest daughter, Hildita, whom Arrogante knew personally and had a close friendship with.

You can read Che's last letter to the little Hildita and to all his children in their original Spanish form.

Hildita told about her father:

"He was a father [who was] very concerned about his children's welfare, not in the material sense, but [in the sense that] we would be cheerful, happy children, that we would enjoy life while becoming new personalities." He was a tender, loving and very playful father, who liked sitting down and talking to his children teaching them through conversation. He wanted his children to be equal to others. "He always taught us to study, to overcome everything, because without knowledge we couldn't do anything."

Read the whole article
 

On 17th April 1961 about 1,500 Cuban exiles, trained and armed by the CIA, invaded Cuba at Playa Girón (Bay of Pigs for the Americans), on a site full with snakes, mosquitos and alligators. Their aim was to topple Fidel Castro.
Fidel rushed there immediately and led the defence himself. The Cuban resistance was amazing - even though some of them weren't happy with their leader. Despite the (weak) air support, the invaders surrrendered two days later. Some of them died, 1,209 were captured. Cuba exchanged the prisoners for baby food, medicines, pesticides and other goods.
The US invasion was defeated in 72 hours.

            

Che wasn't at the battle - he was in charge of the troops at Pinar del Río that time, to defend that place in case of an invasion. While at his command post, he dropped his revolver that went off, the bullet passed through his cheek and came out under his ear. (Contrary to the regulations, he always carried it without the safety catch on - for this offence he severely punished his men.) A few centimetres difference and the bullet would have blown out his brains.
He was taken to hospital. He refused the anaesthetic, but he was given the antitetanus vaccine that caused a violent allergic reaction, with much swelling. Aleida came and stayed with him.


 

I don't know if Flag Counter really works properly, (showing all the countries from where my visitors have come here), but... if it is true, then I am extremely happy!
Because now it is showing me that Che Guevara Siempre had its first CUBAN visitor three hours ago!!! Should I tell you how wonderfully amazing it is?!
This really made my day!
 

Havana, Apr 16 (Prensa Latina) Cuba is updating its economic and social model, but it maintains the socialist nature of its Revolution, proclaimed on April 16, 1961.In order to achieve that goal, measures have been taken, including new forms of production such as self-employment and cooperatives, among other actions aimed at building a prosperous and sustainable socialism.

The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, noted that "this is the socialist and democratic Revolution of the humble, by the humble and for the humble".

"And for this Revolution of the humble, by the humble and for the humble, we are willing to give life," he stressed on April 16, 1961, before a crowd of passionate Cubans who accompanied the victims of mercenary bombings perpetrated the day before.

On Saturday, April 15, enemy planes camouflaged with the insignias of the Revolutionary Armed Forces bombed the airport at Ciudad Libertad (in the capital), the air base in San Antonio de los Baños (southeast of Havana) and the airport in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba.

According to history, the people gathered at the corner of 23rd Avenue and 12th Street, near Colon Cemetery. Cuban flags were hanging from the balconies and flowers were falling.

The funeral procession and the march of thousands of people stopped at the since then historic corner of 23rd and 12th, where Fidel Castro gave a speech.

In allusion to Washington, the Cuban leader said, "This is what they cannot forgive us, that we are here, under their noses, and that we have made a socialist Revolution under the own noses of the United States."

That way, the Cuban Revolution was announcing to the world, and Washington, its socialist nature.

Fidel Castro then accused the U.S. administration of hindering the peaceful march of the Cuban nation, destroying its people's economic resources and their citizens' lives, and demanded that the United States took responsibility for the aggression.

These events will teach us, these painful events will illustrate us and will show us, perhaps more clearly than any others that have occurred until today, what imperialism is like, he stressed.

The image of rifles raised by men and women immortalized the total support for the turn that the revolutionary process would take from then on and that it still continues in Cuba.

In that speech, Fidel Castro also foresaw the aggression that was being organized and that was perpetrated two days later in Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs).

In less than 72 hours, the recently-created National Revolutionary Militias, along with forces from the Rebel Army and the Police, defeated the invaders and that victory is considered the first defeat of the United States in Latin America.

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