Two great men, indispensable to the history of Cuba, were born on June 14 in very different eras. However, the independence of Cuba was their greatest shared passion.
Ernesto Rafael Guevra de la Serna
Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna, known as Che Guevara, was born on June 14, 1928 in Rosario, Argentina.
He was an Argentine doctor, Cuban national, politician, guerrilla, writer, journalist and revolutionary.
He was one of the ideologues and commanders of the Cuban Revolution.
Guevara participated from the armed uprising itself until 1965 in the organization of the Cuban state.
He died on October 9, 1967 in La Higuera, Bolivia.
Che Guevara then became a revolutionary and internationalist icon of solidarity and commitment to the cause of oppressed and destitute peoples around the world.
Antonio de la Caridad Maceo y Grajales
He was born in the region of Santiago de Cuba on June 14, 1845.
He would have joined the Cuban liberation forces at a very young age and then become one of the bravest mambises of our wars of independence against Spain.
Antonio Maceo was a Cuban general, second military leader of the liberating army of Cuba. Nicknamed "the Bronze Titan", Maceo was one of the leaders of the independence of the second half of the 19th century in Latin America.
He died in combat at San Pedro, Punta Brava, on December 7, 1896. A symbol of rebellion was born then.
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