|
|
Article: Seeking Che: Argentine legislators want rebel's remains home from Cuba.
- Article from:
- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- September 13, 2004
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2004 Chicago Tribune. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Byline: Colin McMahon
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina _ If a small but growing group of Argentine legislators has its way, the remains of Che Guevara will come back home one day _ back, that is, to a home that many people do not know he had.
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was born and raised in Argentina, the son of a rich man. But it was with Fidel Castro's revolution that Guevara won fame and infamy, and it is with Cuba that his iconic image is associated. And that is where he is buried.
The Argentines don't expect to change all that. They just want the world to know that Guevara was one of theirs.
"Some people may be in favor of his ideas, and ...