PRAGOTI

Forty-one years ago this day, in a small school hut in La Higuera, Bolivia, Ernesto ‘Che' Guevara was brutally executed by the agents of imperialism. Pragoti commemorates the 41st anniversary of Che Guevera's martyrdom.

If we, in a small point of the world map, are able to fulfill our duty and place at the disposal of this struggle whatever little of ourselves we are permitted to give: our lives, our sacrifice, and if some day we have to breathe our last breath on any land, already ours, sprinkled with our blood let it be known that we have measured the scope of our actions and that we only consider ourselves elements in the great army of the proletariat but that we are proud of having learned from the Cuban Revolution, and from its maximum leader, the great lesson emanating from his attitude in this part of the world: "What do the dangers or the sacrifices of a man or of a nation matter, when the destiny of humanity is at stake."

This was Che's message to the anti-imperialist movement, a year before his martyrdom. Here is the full text of the message titled 'Create Two, Three, Many Vietnams: Message to the Tricontinental' (Courtesy: History is a weapon) followed by an interview (Courtesy: Monthly Review) with Che in 1961 during the Playa Girón (Bay of Pigs) invasion in 1961.