Hasta siempre, comandante

" Hasta Siempre Comandante " or " Hasta Siempre " (Spanish for: Up to eternity, Commander ) is a song by the Cuban composer Carlos Puebla in 1965 The song text is a response to a potentially written by Che Guevara farewell letter. .

Genesis

In April 1965, Che Guevara left Cuba and went to the Congo to drive there first and then in Bolivia the liberation struggle. He did not come back alive to Cuba. On October 3, 1965, Fidel Castro made ​​a supposedly written by Che Guevara farewell letter to him and the Cuban people read. ' " Hasta Siempre Comandante " was the musical Carlos Puebla's response to this letter.

Text

The title of the song quoted the famous motto Guevara " ¡ Hasta la victoria siempre " ( " Ever onward to victory! "). Puebla's text tells the most important moments of the Cuban Revolution and Che Guevara 's revolutionary role as commander.

Cover versions

There are more than 200 cover versions of the song. Inter alia from: Robert Wyatt, Silvio Rodríguez, Maria Farantouri, Wolf Biermann ( in German ), George Dalaras, Jan Garbarek ( Witchi -Tai - To), Giovanni Mirabassi and Al Di Meola, Mohsen Namjoo, Nathalie Cardone, Mohsen Namjoo ( in Persian ) and Enrique Bunbury. Below there are also Che Guevara critical versions such as El Chacal by Jose Conde and Ola Fresca.