Item no. S596 (stamp)
Type: stamp
Country: Cuba
Date of issue: 8 October 2007
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Stamp (of 4-stamp set issued to honor the anniversary of “The fall in combat” of Ernesto “Che” Guevara), an Argentine Marxist revolutionary and guerilla leader. The stamp’s design is based upon an iconic photograph taken on 5th March 1960 by Cuban photographer ALBERTO KORDA (real name Alberto Diaz Gutierrez [1928 – 2001]) at Havana cemetery during funeral services for victims of explosion at the ship “La Coubre”.