Castro and Chavez visit childhood home of Che Guevara

Описание: (23 Jul 2006)
AP Television
21 July 2006
1. Wide of museum
2. Close-up of sign of legendary guerilla Ernesto "Che" Guevara outside museum
Channel 13 - No access Argentina
22 July 2006
3. Cuban President Fidel Castro's convoy arriving at the former house of Che Guevara surrounded by supporters
4. Castro gets out of his car as supporters cheer him on
5. Castro walks into the crowd
6. Crowd of supporters
7. Supporters surrounding Castro and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
8. Crowd outside of the former house of Che Guevara
AP Television
21 July 2006
9. Close up of bedroom of Guevara at his boyhood home
10. Pan of sewing room of Guevara's boyhood home
11. Medium of table with chess set
12. Photo of Guevara and set of golf clubs
Channel 13 - No access Argentina
22 July 2006
13. Chavez and Castro coming out of museum
14. Chavez posing with Guevara's childhood friends
15. Wide of cheering crowd
16. Castro and Chavez walking through crowd
17. Close-up of Castro speaking to crowd
18. Car with Castro and Chavez leaving
STORYLINE
Cuban President Fidel Castro took Venezuelan ally Hugo Chavez on an emotional pilgrimage on Saturday to the boyhood home of Castro's fallen comrade and legendary guerrilla, Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Alta Gracia, Argentina.
"Fidel! Fidel!" and "Hugo! Hugo!" the crowd of about two-thousand chanted as Castro, wearing his trademark green military fatigues, got out of his limousine.
Black-uniformed police with guard dogs kept back the crowd for hours as bystanders jammed the space outside the green-painted, brick-and-tile middle class home that Guevara once lived in, now a local attraction.
The house on Saturday bore the famous iconic photograph taken in 1960 that shows the legendary "Che" wearing his classic beret.
On their arrival Castro and Chavez entered the house to view such items as a vintage motorbike like the one used by Guevara for his cross-South American trip.
The house now is owned by the Alta Gracia city government.
Guevara lived in the house for two stretches, first from 1935-1937 and then again from 1939-43.
Castro, who first visited Argentina in 1959 after the Cuban revolution, had never before visited the home of the guerrilla who is revered in Cuba.
Guevara spent most of his childhood in the central Argentine province, where his family hoped a mild climate would ease his severe asthma.
Guevara's family later moved to Buenos Aires, where he enrolled in medical school before launching the famous motorcycle trip around South America that inspired him to give up medicine for leftist revolution.
Guevara launched an armed revolt in 1966 to bring communism to Bolivia after helping lead the 1959 Cuban Revolution that ousted dictator Fulgencio Batista and thrust Castro into power.
He was killed in 1967 by the Bolivian army and his early death helped transform him into a larger-than-life figure.
His remains were taken three decades later to Cuba, where they are entombed under a massive monument.

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