Eastern Cuba hosts photo exhibition dedicated to Che and Fidel

 BAYAMO, Cuba, Oct 19 (ACN) The figures of the Heroic Guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara and the historic leader of the Revolution Fidel Castro, inspired the photographic exhibition organized in this city and curated by the Brazilian José do Nascimento Júnior, PhD in Museology and Cultural Heritage, who stressed that the sample provides evidence of the tight bonds of friendship between Cuba and Brazil that the rest of Latin America should emulate.

Titled Inspiradores de una Nueva Latinoamérica [Inspirers of a new Latin America], the exhibition includes twenty snapshots that provide graphic testimony of meetings that Guevara and Castro held with Brazilian leaders between 1959 and 1980.

Among the events captured by various photographers are the moment when former Brazilian President Jânio Quadros decorated Che with the Order of the Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil’s highest distinction, and the receptions that former President Dilma Rousseff and current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva gave Fidel.

The opening of the exhibition was followed by a panel on the life and work of the iconic Argentine-Cuban guerrilla—held in the context of Fiesta de la Cubanía (Cubanhood Fiesta) hosted by the city of Bayamo until October 20, Cuban Culture Day—and conducted by Nascimento Júnior himself, historian Aldo Daniel Naranjo, and Reday Armas Álvarez, director of the emblematic monument that houses the mortal remains of the Heroic Guerrilla, whom they described as a radical humanist.