The Che Guevara Mausoleum &Museum was open in October 1997, 3 decades after his death in Bolivia in 9th October 1967.Che Guevara was a prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution who went on to become a guerrilla leader in South America. Executed by the Bolivian army in 1967, he has since been regarded as a martyred hero by generations of leftists worldwide.It was in Santa Clara on 29th December of 1959, 18 men under Che’s command, armed with rifles, homemade Molotov Cocktails, and a stolen Bulldozer derailed an armored train with 350 soldiers that the current President Fulgencio Batista had sent to fight Cuban Revolutionaries. Che and his men managed to derail and capture all the 350 soldiers on boarding the train, without even firing a single bullet, the train was also transporting a big amount of weapon’s that Che and his men would use later in the Revolution, the armored train is on display in the memorial park.
The Mausoleum also holds the remains of 6 of his fellow guerrilla soldiers that were killed together with him in Bolivia. There’s also a small museum dedicated to Che’s life next to the mausoleum. It holds some of Che’s personal artifacts, like the actual camera he used on his South America bike trip, some of his uniforms, a few of his weapons plus a lot more.
Tonight in a beautiful Resort in Santa Clara – El Palmer.
