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Wide of Che Guevara monument at Revolution Square, Santa Clara2. Wide interior monument tombs3. Close-up eternal flame4. Close-up Che's tomb5. Medium of relatives placing flowers on tombs6. Close-up Aleida Guevara (Che's daughter)...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide of Che Guevara monument at Revolution Square, Santa Clara\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide interior monument tombs\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close-up eternal flame\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close-up Che's tomb\u003cbr/\u003e5. Medium of relatives placing flowers on tombs\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close-up Aleida Guevara (Che's daughter) placing flower on father's tomb\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close-up Che's tomb with daughter's flower\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Aleida Guevara, daughter of Che Guevara:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I want to recall the commitment we all have for a stronger society, today Latin America begins to wake up and the dreams of all of them together are becoming a reality. We must be more present and firm than ever; that is the best homage to our parents, to our loved ones.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Medium of eternal flame\u003cbr/\u003e10. Medium Raul Castro arriving at Revolution Square and greeting Guevara family\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of Honour Guard rifle salute \u003cbr/\u003e12. Acting president Raul Castro, Ramiro Valdes, Guillermo Garcia saluting (left to right) \u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide of monument and dancers\u003cbr/\u003e14. Medium of dancers\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide same\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close-up of school children in audience\u003cbr/\u003e17. Raul Castro, Ramiro Valdes, Guillermo Garcia watching stage (left to right) \u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide of crowd and sign (Spanish) \"We want you to be like Che\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Ramiro Valdes, Comandante of the Revolution and Minister of Communications:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Ten years ago we had not suffered the hard hit of Fidel's illness, our guide, the boss who at the same time could tend to a myriad of enormous tasks. He is today recovering and is playing an irreplaceable role of orientation with his thoughts and experience.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Tilt up Che monument\u003cbr/\u003e21. Wide of Revolution Square\u003cbr/\u003e22. Medium shot flags with Che picture\u003cbr/\u003e23. Medium Raul Castro and Ramiro Valdes place flowers at base of monument\u003cbr/\u003e24. Cutaway Che monument\u003cbr/\u003e25. Aleida March, Che's widow, and Aleida Guevara place flowers\u003cbr/\u003e25. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Jose Luis Quintanilla, 10-year-old schoolboy:\u003cbr/\u003e\"He was a very brave man, he fought in the Sierra next to Fidel, he came on the Granma yacht and today is the 40th anniversary of his death.\"\u003cbr/\u003e26. School children in line with flowers in hand\u003cbr/\u003eFidel Castro paid homage to Ernesto \"Che\" Guevara as an \"exceptional combatant\" in a written missive as many of the Argentine guerrilla's former comrades and relatives gathered in central Cuba on Monday for a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of his capture and subsequent execution.\u003cbr/\u003eBut Castro, who has not been seen in public since undergoing intestinal surgery and ceding power to his brother Raul more than 14 months ago, did not attend the low-key, hour-long ceremony in Santa Clara, one of several such tributes to the guerrilla leader being held around the Americas.\u003cbr/\u003eStill, the ailing leader's presence was felt as a government presenter read his message to several thousand people gathered before the towering bronze statue built in Santa Clara in Guevara's likeness. \u003cbr/\u003eA previously made recording of Castro reading a historic letter Guevara wrote to him four decades ago was also broadcast over loudspeakers.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I halt in my daily combat to bow my head, with respect and gratitude, to the exceptional combatant who fell on the 8th of October 40 years ago,\" Castro wrote in the essay, which was also published Monday in the Communist Party daily newspaper Granma. \u003cbr/\u003e\"I give him thanks for what he tried to do, and for what he could not do in his country of birth because he was like a flower yanked prematurely from its stem.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe iconic image of Guevara with a scraggly beard and a beret is still embraced by many in Cuba and the rest of Latin America, where he inspired guerrilla movements in the 1970s and 1980s. \u003cbr/\u003eBut the image is hated by anti-Communists, especially Cubans living in exile who recall Guevara's role in the purge trials and executions of hundreds of police and army officials accused of torturing and killing opponents during the Fulgencio Batista government the rebels overthrew.\u003cbr/\u003eRaul Castro, who fought with Guevara in the mountains during Cuba's revolution, attended the ceremony, but did not speak. \u003cbr/\u003eInstead, another former comrade-in-arms, Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdes, gave the key address, which focused as much on domestic matters as it did on Guevara's legacy.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Ten years ago we had not suffered the hard hit of Fidel's illness, our guide, the boss who at the same time could tend to a myriad of enormous tasks. He is today recovering and is playing an irreplaceable role of orientation with his thoughts and experience,\" said Valdes, one of only three men who hold the honorific title of Commander of the Revolution and currently Cuba's Communications Minister.\u003cbr/\u003eBut Valdes also called on Cubans to remain united during what he called \"more difficult and dangerous\" times marked by Castro's illness and increased US government hostility toward the island.\u003cbr/\u003eEchoing Raul Castro's numerous proposals for talks with American officials, Valdes also proclaimed that \"we will not renounce the possibility of a dialogue if some day there are more realistic leaders in that country\", while still remembering Fidel Castro's vow that \"they never will have Cuba\".\u003cbr/\u003eValdes headed the delegation that returned Guevara's bones a decade ago to Cuba, where Fidel Castro oversaw an elaborate ceremony in which they were entombed under the statute in Santa Clara - site of Guevara's key military victory which prompted Batista to flee the island on New Year's Eve, 1958.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter Monday's ceremony, Guevara's daughter Aleida joined other relatives in placing flowers at the revolutionary's tomb, saying that Cubans should still subscribe to her father's communist vision of a \"new society\".\u003cbr/\u003e\"We must be more present and firm than ever; that is the best homage to our parents, to our loved ones.\",\" she said.\u003cbr/\u003eIn other tributes to Guevara around Latin America, more than 7,000 people, most of them young people, held a march in Bolivia on Sunday.\u003cbr/\u003eBolivian President Evo Morales on Monday was remembering Guevara in Vallegrande, about 450 kilometres (280 miles) southeast of La Paz, where the revolutionary's remains were secretly buried for nearly three decades before they were discovered and returned to Cuba, where Guevara became a naturalized citizen and the revolutionary government's first industry minister. 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