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<h1 id="reader-title">Bolivia's Evo Morales Pays Tribute to Che
on 50th Anniversary of His Death<br>
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<p>Bolivian President Evo Morales presided over the main
event marking the 50th anniversary of the death of <a
href="https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Remembering-Che-Guevara-50-Years-After-His-Assassination-20170503-0001.html">Ernesto
"Che" Guevara</a> and his fellow combatants.</p>
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America Commemorates 50th Anniversary of Che
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<p>Attended by Che's four children, along with Harry
Villegas and Leonardo Tamayo, both members of Che's
guerrilla group in Bolivia, and thousands of members of
political and social movements, Morales said that the
moment was ripe to relaunch the anti-imperialist
struggle, one of Che's main legacies.</p>
<p>"Today, as we commemorate half a century of Commandante
Che Guevara's passing to eternity, we are united in a
single anti-imperialist, anti-colonial and
anti-capitalist battle cry," adding that Che left home
with dreams of fighting for a world without “rich
people” and “social classes.”</p>
<p>Bolivia's first Indigenous head of state stressed the
need to recognize Indigenous resistance movements in the
struggle to create participatory democracy and world
citizenship. He emphasized that if the United States
wants people to stop taking up arms and organizing
themselves into guerrilla movements, then its foreign
policymakers must stop invading and interfering in the
affairs of sovereign, independent nations.</p>
<p>Afterwards, Morales decried the fact that the world's
riches remain in the “hands of a few,” a reality he said
that must be opposed by all “anti-capitalists.”</p>
<p>He added that the best way to honor Che and build a
world in which basic human rights have been secured is
to continue his “anti-imperialist fight,” stressing the
need to foster new international humanitarianism and the
tearing down of the imaginary walls separating the
world's peoples.</p>
<p>The event, which included musical groups and artistic
presentions, was held on the old runway at Vallegrande
airport in the southeast of the country, near the place
where Che's remains were secretly buried by the Bolivian
military, but later exhumed and taken to Cuba 20 years
ago.</p>
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