An international committee to organize the second World Che Guevara Meeting was formed in eastern Santa Cruz, Bolivia, with the participation of Aleida Guevara, elder daughter of the legendary guerrilla.

The encounter is scheduled for October 2007, on the 40th anniversary of the last combat of the Argentine Cuban revolutionary.

Aleida was elected member of the organizing committee, although she stressed that the entire staff of the Havana-based Che Guevara Studies Center will participate in the work.

She grasped at the opportunity to lash out at the free trade agreements Washington is pushing in Latin America and demanded the release of the five Cubans unfairly jailed in the US for fighting terrorism.

The formation of the international committee, also composed of Ambassadors Rafael Dausa, Cuba, and Julio Montes, Venezuela, put an end to her intense visit to Bolivia.

In the Andean nation, Aleida Guevara attended a ceremony to honor her father, who was murdered in La Higuera on October 9, 1967 and fulfilled a packed program along with Rosa Aurora Freijanes, wife of Fernando Gonzalez, one of the Cuban Five.

The two took part in the sixth Bolivian Congress of Solidarity with Cuba in southern Potosi and visited the cities of La Paz, Sucre and Cochabamba.

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