HAPPY BIRTHDAY. ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA 14 JUNE 1928 ROSARIO ARGENTINA

In faraway Australia, I was interested in Physician-writers, Physician-Revolutionaries. English had produced many Physician-writers whereas Latin America had produced many Physician-Revolutionaries: Che, Salvador Allende, Frantz Fanon are the best known ..
There have been many politicians educated as doctors, some good but mostly bad, including dictators!
Literature is where the doctors find their niche, there are some good physician-writers at the moment and have been: Michael Bulgakov, Anton Chekov, AJ Cronin (a childhood favourite), Somerset Maugham (I distinctly remembered him while I was a on ship off the coast of Borneo, on a school holiday), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , I instructed the medical students to read his books as Sherlock Holmes was modelled after Doyle’s clinical teacher at Edinburgh!


But the person who has been with me constantly for the past many years, seeing me through my medical student days, as a junior doctor and into my Consultant Physician days to my Professorial debut in Cuba… has been CHE..

Living room at the Blue House among the UmonHon Indians. The painting of Che was bought at the Calle Obispo “gallery” many moons ago 


Latin American countries were too enamoured with USA to listen to CHE while he was alive and now you can hear voice clearly, in the streets of Latin America and also in the USA with Black Lives Matter protests..


If you feel the pain of injustice in your heart, you are my brother..
From Granma.cu 
La querida presencia del Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara en Santa Clara, la ciudad que un día se despertó para ver al guerrillero argentino-cubano que venía con su brazo en cabestrillo a regalarle la ansiada libertad, será recordada este 14 de junio con múltiples actividades, en ocasión de conmemorarse este día el aniversario 92 de su natalicio.

CHE statue in Santa Clara, Cuba


Today is also the 175th birth anniversary of yet another great liberator of Cuba from the Spanish yoke..


Hombre a quien bastaría para inmortalizarlo su viril Protesta de Baraguá o la genial conducción de la invasión desde el insurrecto Oriente al extremo occidental del país, el Mayor General Antonio Maceo Grajales recibirá en Santiago de Cuba este 14 de junio, el homenaje por los 175 años de su natalicio en esta ciudad