Cuba remembers Che Guevara 40 years after his execution

COMMUNIST Cuba paid tribute yesterday to Ernesto “Che” Guevara, 40 years after the guerrilla fighter was captured and executed in Bolivia.

The man he helped to power in Cuba’s 1959 revolution, Fidel Castro, was too ill to attend a memorial rally at the mausoleum where Guevara’s remains were placed after they were dug up from an unmarked Bolivian grave in 1997.

Castro marked the anniversary in a newspaper column that was read at the rally, saying the Argentine-born doctor sowed the seeds of social conscience in Latin America and the world.