Che vive

from buena vista i went thru santa cruz directly to samaipata, mataral until vallegrande, the city in bolivia where the whole world saw on pictures or videos that Ernesto "Che" Guevara was killed while trying to create one of the many vietnam he said one day, trying from bolivia to create a continental revolution to free south america from the north american imperialism. so my first visit in vallegrande was the laundry "room" where his body was exposed with his open eyes. if you saw the pictures before going there, it s something to be exactly at this place. a strong feeling, big silence, thoughts. i stayed there maybe 1 or 2 hours to read what people that came before me wrote on the walls (and it seems that all the world is revolutionary), look around the countryside, just feel the place at the maximum. the second day, i went to la higuera thanks to an argentinian couple that lift me there cos the taxi were to expensive, and there were no mini buses to go there cos the road was to bad. when i went to la higuera, i understood why buses couldnt go there. the road was just mud, or even sometimes a river itself. at one point, we thought that if we would continue, the road would collapse and the car fall into the emptyness. well, we arrived without more or less any problems to la higuera. it s a very small village, one of the kind i m use to go. but there, everything is made to the memory of "che". stencils everywhere, statues, painting, the 2 hostels or shop or restaurants are called che something. the school where he s been killed 40 years ago is now a museum. and we met 1 woman that was at this time 10 years old, than that told us the story of what she saw, him alive, then him dead, military, that che wnet to his house more in the jungle at the time to sea her sister ill, and gave some medecines to his parents.... then we went to the place were he s been captured, so i was there asking from where was he coming, and where exactly was he captured, just to make all the scene in my head. not a lot to see, but some great emotions to feel. then the last day i went to where his body was found in 1997, 30 years after his death, near 6 other guerilleros killed the same day. the hole is still there, just a house has been built around the hole, and some pictures are on these walls. vallegrande and la higuera were a great time in my trip in bolivia, and i can say in south america.

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[tibo]

les esprits rebels sont toujours vivants... de bonne sensation. j etais au milieu d une manif il y a trois semaines a peu pres, et c est incroyable la force que je resentais quand les gens criaient, dans leur langue: el pueblo unido jamas sera vencido. america libre...