The International Congress in Solidarity with Cuba will begin its sessions here today and over 200 delegates from nine countries are expected to attend.
On the first day, participants will be divided into three working groups, in which they will discuss the U.S. blockade against Cuba, the battle for the release of the Cuban Five imprisoned in the United States and the legacy of Che Guevara.
According Leyla Perez, president of the Bolivian Movement in Solidarity with Cuba and organizer of the meeting, the first group will analyze the efforts of groups that support Cuba in Latin America and the struggle to lift the blockade.
The second will study the international actions in support to Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, Fernando Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero and Rene Gonzalez, who are held in the U.S. for monitoring Miami-based terrorist groups operating against Cuba. The third section will discuss the legacy of Commander Ernesto Che Guevara, killed in La Higuera, Bolivia, on October 1967.
On Sunday night, they will include a cultural gala, open to the public, including trova and folklore songs, with Bolivian and Cuban artists.
Perez told Prensa Latina that tomorrow there will be a lecture on the influence of Che in the revolutionary processes and the awakening of Latin American peoples.
Lecturers will include Chato Pereda, brother of Roberto and Inti, members of Che's guerrilla, Argentinian Graciela Paccot and a representative from Cuba and another from the Landless Movement in Brazil.
Also on Monday the books "De Ernesto Al Che" by Argentinian Carlos (Calica) Ferrer, and "Pan Comido" by Bolivian Efrain Quicañez will be launched.
Ferrer's work chronicles the journey made with Ernesto Guevara in 1953 alongside Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, in the months just before he became the legendary Argentine Che.
Meanwhile, "Pan Comido" narrates the rescue of three survivors of the guerrilla fighters led by Guevara after his assassination in La Higuera on October 9, 1967.
Delegates from Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Spain, Canada and Germany will attend the solidarity gathering scheduled to end on Monday afternoon with a ceremony to commemorate the 45th anniversary of Che's assassination.