Missions. The writer Pedro Jorge Solans spoke yesterday in Misiones, during the inauguration of the works to enhance the Ernesto Guevara House Museum, located in the “Solar del Che” Natural and Cultural Reserve in Caraguatay.
It is worth remembering that Che’s family, the Guevara Lynch, lived in that place for three years during the first years of little Ernesto’s life, after his birth in Rosario. There they dedicated themselves to the exploitation of yerba mate.
Solans was the one who announced the meeting that Che Guevara and the poet and musician, Ramón Ayala, “El Mensú” had in Havana, in 1962. Ayala was the voice of the axemen, the menus and the tareferos.
“There you will find the stanzas of Ramón Ayala’s menu, there you will find vestiges of the Guaranitic thought of the land without evil, and above all, and a very important thing. All his concern in life was the new man, the new dawn, changing one personally so that society changes,” Solans noted.
The governor of Misiones, Hugo Passalacqua, led the inauguration ceremony of the enhancement works. The event included the planting of native trees, a ribbon cutting, a walk along a trail to the house and the brand new gazebo. During the event, the Declaration of Interest of the House of Representatives of the site was delivered.
Representing the Government of Misiones, the Minister of Culture, José Martin Schuap, thanked the public and private actors involved in the implementation of the initiative.
The event was also attended by the Minister of Ecology, Martín Recamán, the Secretary of Tourism and Innovation, Culture and Sports of Villa Carlos Paz, Sebastián Boldrini, among other legislative officials, other provincial and local authorities, artists and prominent guests.
A cultural and historical space
The Ernesto Guevara House Museum is a cultural and historical space that preserves part of the childhood of this world-renowned figure. Located in the “Solar del Che” Natural and Cultural Reserve, a protected area of 18 hectares, it offers visitors the opportunity to walk three trails, visit the museum on the property and learn about the early years of Ernesto Guevara’s life. In the place you can see the remains of the Guevara house, an ingenious water supply system and a viewpoint with views of the Paraná River, Caraguatay Island and the coast of Paraguay, as well as a diversity of fauna and flora characteristic of the region.
Precisely there, Ernesto Guevera Lynch and his wife Celia De la Serna, Che’s parents, settled in Misiones in 1927, coming from San Isidro, Buenos Aires, tempted by the productive potential of the region. In 1997, the year in which Che’s remains were discovered in Bolivia, the Guevara lands were expropriated (a portion) by a law of the provincial Legislature with the aim of converting it into a reserve.
