este es el link a la nota sobre el Museo Ernesto Che Guevara que hizo EFE en setiembre 2016.
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2422249&CategoryId=13003
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2422249&CategoryId=13003
| Only Museum on “Che” in Buenos Aires is in a Picturesque Shop <![if !vml]>  <![endif]>BUENOS AIRES – A life size statue of Ernesto “Che” Guevara wearing a beret and with a cigar in his mouth, while stepping on a U.S. flag, stands at the entrance of a peculiar shop in Buenos Aires where – amid hundreds of knickknacks, household items and junk for sale – the only museum dedicated to the iconic guerrilla leader in this capital is located.Seventy-three-year-old Eladio Gonzalez, known as “Toto,” said he is in love with the Cuban people and is the owner of the picturesque shop in the middle class Caballito neighborhood crammed full of merchandise, including all kinds of pictures and home decorations. There, Gonzalez pays his particular kind of homage to the revolutionary icon from Argentina, who died in 1967, in a showcase displaying images from Che’s private life, medals, posters and assorted other curiosities, as well as a replica of Alberto Granado’s motorcycle on which the pair made their famous Latin American tour. There is also a small bottle containing earth from La Higuera, the Bolivian town where Che was shot to death, and another with sand from the Bay of Pigs, site of the failed 1961 U.S. invasion of Cuba where two years before Fidel Castro had taken power. Gonzalez and his wife Irene Perpiñal established the first South American museum to Che in 1996 a short distance from the shop, and it was in operation until 2002, when the couple had to close it due to the chaotic political and social situation Argentina was facing at the time. The idea for the museum dates back to 1992, though, when the couple traveled to Cuba and Gonzalez went to donate blood for a young policeman, a deed that moved and enthused many Cubans, who began writing him letters thanking him for his selfless gesture. “They thanked me because I reminded them of ... Che” and after more than 1,000 letters “I had been brainwashed, they had spoken to me so much” about the Argentine revolutionary that “I couldn’t help it ... (and) decided to set up the museum,” said Gonzalez in an interview with EFE. Although he did not know much about Che and had not read about his ideas, Gonzalez “fell in love with the love of the Cuban people” for Che and decided to “present” them with a museum to the iconic figure “for their happiness.” His eyes get bright when he talks about Che, whom he called a “philosopher” devoted to people who have nothing and motivated only by “love.” When he was forced to close the original museum, Gonzalez transferred part of the items he had there to his shop to try and “keep the memory” of the rebel leader alive. The rest of the items remained in storage for four years until he decided to donate them to the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who are in possession of them today. |
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