BY OLYMPIA NEWTON
COLUMBIA, Maryland - Nearly 80 people celebrated the legacy of Ernesto Che Guevara here on October 11. The program, sponsored by the Howard County Friends of Central America and the Caribbean (HOCOFOCA), consisted of a report- back from two participants in this summer's 14th World Festival of Youth and Students; poetry and music celebrating the life of Che Guevara and the Cuban revolution; and speakers who addressed the need to fight the U.S. embargo against Cuba. A delegation from the Cuban Interests Section was in attendance.

Basilio Gutiérrez, a representative of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), spoke on the ideas and legacy of Che Guevara. Gutiérrez was in town from Cuba and had been invited to make a six-week U.S. tour but the U.S. government prevented him from traveling outside a 25-mile radius of Washington, D.C.  
 
 
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