In Cuba, October is dedicated to homage Camilo Cienfuegos and Che Guevara

With the guidance of the pedagogical staff, from Friday until October 28, the students will approach the thought and work of Ernesto Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos, on a Day that each year has the purpose of honoring both heroes.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- The admission of more than 5,200 first-grade students to the José Martí Pioneers Organization (OPJM) and the reception of the blue scarf was the first of the activities conceived in these days of tribute to those who shared the same ideal: fight and defend the dreams of justice and sovereignty of Cuba.

Maité Escobar Rivero, president of the OPJM in the province, also highlighted the exhibition in the detachments of photographs of the Cuban-Argentine Heroic Guerrilla and the Lord of the Vanguard, as the heroes are known, on the 13th.

A bike ride and then, camping at the Jesús Argüelles explorer pioneers center will take place on the coming 19th; also to remember Paquito González Cueto, the first pioneer martyr, who participated in the funeral honors of Julio Antonio Mella, and was mortally wounded.

On the 25th, the program Seremos com el Che (We will be like Che), will promote reflection among students based on passages from his life. On October 28th, they will also perform the customary tribute to Camilo, with the main event in the municipality of Puerto Padre.

In Cuba, October is dedicated to remembering these two paradigms of fighters, in whom the new generations can find a benchmark of humanity, ethics, justice, love for their fellow human beings, a sense of the historical moment, and the exercise of revolutionary practice.