GRANMA INTERNATIONAL 1998. ELECTRONIC
EDITION. Havana, Cuba
Remains of Tania the Guerrila
and four more under Che's
command are now in Havana
THE remains of internationalist fighter Haydée Tamara
Bunke Bider, known throughout the world as Tania the Guerrilla, and of Bolivians Mario
Gutiérrez Ardaya (Julio), Aniceto Reinaga Gordillo (Aniceto), Jaime Arana Campero
(Chapaco) and Francisco Huanca Flores (Pablito), all members of Comandante Ernesto Che
Guevara's guerrilla army in Bolivia, arrived at José Martí International Airport on
December 13, at the request of their families.
The remains of the heroic combatants were immediately taken to the
Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces' Granma Hall in Havana, where the remains of
Cuban internationalists Manuel Hernández Osorio (Miguel) and Octavio de la Concepción y
de la Pedraja (Moro); Bolivians Roberto Peredo Leigue (Coco) and Julio César Méndez
Korné (Ñato); and Peruvian Edilberto Lucio Galván Hidalgo (Eustaquio) were deposited on
March 15 this year.
The remains will be temporarily housed in Granma Hall until they are
finally laid to rest in the Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara Memorial in the city of Santa
Clara. |