Havana - Fifty-one years after his assassination in Bolivia, Cubans remember the guerrilla fighter Ernesto Che Guevara (1928-1967) as an example of a revolutionary and a promoter of the new man called to build a better world.

These days, Cubans in their neighborhoods, work places and educational centers hold political and cultural events to honor the Argentinean-Cuban leader, who was captured on October 8, 1967, in Quebrada del Yuro, and was taken to a school in La Huiguera, where he was assassinated the next day.

The internationalist combatant Tomas Escandon, who fought alongside Guevara in Congo in 1965, highlighted the characteristics of the heroic guerrilla fighter (as Che is called in Cuba).

He had many virtues, and among the main ones were preaching with his example and demanding from himself more than from others, the computer expert told Prensa Latina in Havana, on the occasion of the anniversary of Che's death.

According to Escandon, the revolutionary who was born in Rosario, Argentina, on June 14, 1928, was a very charismatic person and 'a true enemy of privileges'.

I had first-hand knowledge about his virtues, and I remember that in a very complex situation in Congo, he established that no one could be late for sentry duty, and whoever was late would not have lunch the next day.

'We were surrounded and under pressure by the enemy who was forcing us to reinforce surveilance, the guerrilla chief himself arrived late at the sentry post and although his reasons were justified, he did not have lunch the next day,' Escandon noted.

Others who shared struggles with Che Guevara during the voyage of the Granma yacht, the Sierra Maestra mountain range and the Rebel Army, which brought the revolution to Cuba from those mountains, as well as in the military actions in Africa and Bolivia, agree to describe him as an example.

'Che has become a model of a man not only for our people but also for any people in Latin America. Che boosted revolutionary stoicismm, the spirit of revolutionary sacrifice, the combativeness of revolutionaries, the work spirit of revolutionaries to its highest expression (...),' Fidel Castro said.

On October 18, 1967, the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution highlighted Che's qualities at a solemn event to honor the heroic guerrilla fighter, whom he described as 'a model of a man who belongs to the future'.

'If we want to express how we want our revolutionary combatants, our militants, our men to be, we must say without any hesitation, May they be like Che!,' Fidel Castro stressed.