Havana, Oct 7 (Prensa Latina) Activities to commemorate the 38th anniversary of Argentinian-Cuban guerrilla fighter Ernesto Guevara's fall in combat are taking place throughout Cuba on Friday, where more than 135,000 children will become pioneers in the country's schools.
The main ceremony, a rally combining political and cultural activities, will be held on October 8 in the Ernesto Che Guevara Revolution Plaza in Santa Clara, in the central province of Villa Clara.
Cuban Revolution Combatant Association members will lay a wreath at the Memorial where the guerrilla chief's remains, and those of his comrades-in-arms who fell in Bolivia, are kept.
Cuban poet Francis Sanchez' poem entitled "Rezo de Coral a Ernesto" (Coral Prayer to Ernesto) will Saturday be awarded with the Ciudad del Che (Che's city) contest prize.
Commemorative activities have been planned in the factories Commander Guevera opened in Santa Clara, and other national centers and institutions.
The guerrilla fighter was assassinated on October 8, 1967 in the Bolivian town of Higuera, victim of a shooting in which the US intelligence services participated, as well as military units from the Andean country.
