La Higuera, Bolivia, October 19.— First Vice President José Ramón Machado Ventura visited La Higuera, the town in eastern Bolivia where they murdered Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara 42 years ago.

As part of his visit to this South American nation, the Cuban leader said that he was profoundly moved by his tour of that historic site, where they killed the Heroic Guerilla on October 9, 1967.

Likewise, he was interested in the living conditions of the families that inhabit the remote, poor community, located more than a thousand kilometers from the city of La Paz.

Machado Ventura, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba, had an animated dialogue with Cuban doctors — Danay González Abréu from Camagüey and Roberto Sánchez Bazán from Granma — at the La Higuera medical clinic. The Cuban doctors are providing services there as internationalist collaborators.

Machado Ventura learned in detail about the dozens of medical consultations every day and about the free medical attention that these Cubans offer to families in that community and to other neighboring areas where resources are also scarce.

Accompanied by the Cuban ambassador to Bolivia, Rafael Dausá, and members of the medical mission, the Machado also toured the school where they murdered Che Guevara and the museum built in honor of the Heroic Guerrilla.

In statements to the press, Machado Ventura emphasized his interest during the entire journey through these mountainous parts in the geographical characteristics and vegetation of the different sites, which shed light on Che’s experiences during those intense months of the guerrilla struggle. (PL)