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The Cuban Revolution is built on tradition and symbolism.

Every week at the Nicholas Estevane's primary school in Havana,

children stand to attention in the playground to sing the national anthem.

It's a ceremony performed in primary schools across the island, where young people are taught to uphold

the revolution socialist ideals from an early age and follow the example of one of its

heroes in particular. pioneers of communism they chant, we will be like Chee.

As a young doctor from Argentina, Ernesto Che Guevara joined Fidel Castro in the late 1950s in his

efforts to overthrow the military dictatorship in Cuba.

Against the odds they were successful and he became a member of the Cuban Revolutionary

Government.

Spurred by the desire to spread socialist revolution around the world, he travelled first

to Congo and finally Bolivia, where he was caught and executed on the 9th of October,

1967.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of his death.

The Cuba, Chee left behind has gone through big changes in recent years. Relations with the United

States, what Chee called the great enemy of mankind have improved and private enterprises on the rise.

I'm Will Grant, the BBC's Cuba correspondent, and I'll be meeting some of those who knew Che Givada, the man rather than just the myth,

among them his children and the men who fought alongside him.

And I'll be asking young Cubans what Chee's legacy means to them. Five decades after his death, just how important

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