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Bolivia Congress Honors Che

Bolivia, October 4, 2009. The 9th Bolivian Congress of Solidarity with Cuba concludes in that city Sunday with an homage to guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara.

The event's participants will pay tribute to Che in the same place where his remains lied for three decades.

With the slogan "50th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution," the congress opened Saturday analyzes new strategies to intensify the Bolivian campaign for the release of the five Cuban anti-terrorists unfairly imprisoned in the US.

According to organizers, the delegates will call for the inclusion in the final declaration of a demand for a fair trial and the immediate return to Cuba of Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, Fernando Gonzalez, and Antonio Guerrero.

The forum, attended by about 20 groups of solidarity with Cuba from the nine Bolivian departments, also highlights the strengthening and support of Cuban cooperation programs with the Andean nation in such spheres as health and education.

It also centers attention on the rejection of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade against the island for nearly 50 years.

The election of the Bolivian solidarity movement's new leadership and the venue of the 2010 congress are contained in the last point of today's agenda.(Cubaminrex- PL)

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