Martin Antonenko
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The assassination of Che Guevara...
On October 9, 1967, the (actually Argentinian) Cuban revolutionary leader Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, known as "Ché" (= "good buddy")...
...in Vallegrande (Bolivia) on the orders of the CIA by a drunken sergeant of the Bolivian army named Mario Teràn...
... murdered.
A day earlier, the small group of revolutionaries led by Che - who had been fighting the military dictatorship in Bolivia since 1966 and hoped to bring about a popular uprising - had been betrayed by peasants to the Bolivian army and Che - wounded twice - after a brief skirmish near the captured alive in the village of La Higueira....:
Che was transported to Vallegrande - that's where the CIA gave the murder order. An army private who was first assigned to shoot the prisoner lost heart - Che even gave him his watch and two silver Dollars, he carried with him for commemotation...:
Then came Sergeant Mario Teràn's hour (rear, with rifle)....:
He had drunk his courage beforehand and shot Che with several shots - but on express orders he left out the head so that the dead man could still be photographed in a "presentable" way afterwards.
After that, the military had their victim photographed like a dead animal...:
The following picture was released worldwide and was supposed to prove the death of the revolutionary idol...:
Although they wanted to boast about Che's corpse, they certainly didn't want to create a martyr or even a revolutionary place of pilgrimage. That is why Ché's hands were severed and buried after the murder so that the body could not be identified later.
The Bolivian government's statement that Che was killed in action and that Guevara's body was cremated and buried at an unknown location turned out to be untrue 30 years after his death:
In 1997, of all things, in the official commemoration year for the revolutionary hero, in the 30th year of his death, scientists found Guevara's remains under the old runway of the Bolivian airport of Vallegrande...:
The remains were transported to Cuba and given a state funeral in a mausoleum in Santa Clara, the place where Ché had won his greatest battle for the Cuban Revolution...:
A memorial in front of the mausoleum commemorates him...:
Another - unofficial - memorial is the bus shelter in Vallegrande where the murder happened...:
Guevara's murder was obviously avenged, because six of the politicians and military personnel involved in Che's death have already died violent deaths: They were murdered or died in accidents, including the then military dictator René Barrientos Ortuño...
... who crashed with his helicopter...:
Che's murderer, Sergeant Teràn, who died on March 10, 2022, suffered from cataracts in old age. And in 2007 it was Cuban doctors of all people who restored the man's sight...
On October 9, 1967, the (actually Argentinian) Cuban revolutionary leader Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, known as "Ché" (= "good buddy")...
...in Vallegrande (Bolivia) on the orders of the CIA by a drunken sergeant of the Bolivian army named Mario Teràn...
... murdered.
A day earlier, the small group of revolutionaries led by Che - who had been fighting the military dictatorship in Bolivia since 1966 and hoped to bring about a popular uprising - had been betrayed by peasants to the Bolivian army and Che - wounded twice - after a brief skirmish near the captured alive in the village of La Higueira....:
Che was transported to Vallegrande - that's where the CIA gave the murder order. An army private who was first assigned to shoot the prisoner lost heart - Che even gave him his watch and two silver Dollars, he carried with him for commemotation...:
Then came Sergeant Mario Teràn's hour (rear, with rifle)....:
He had drunk his courage beforehand and shot Che with several shots - but on express orders he left out the head so that the dead man could still be photographed in a "presentable" way afterwards.
After that, the military had their victim photographed like a dead animal...:
The following picture was released worldwide and was supposed to prove the death of the revolutionary idol...:
Although they wanted to boast about Che's corpse, they certainly didn't want to create a martyr or even a revolutionary place of pilgrimage. That is why Ché's hands were severed and buried after the murder so that the body could not be identified later.
The Bolivian government's statement that Che was killed in action and that Guevara's body was cremated and buried at an unknown location turned out to be untrue 30 years after his death:
In 1997, of all things, in the official commemoration year for the revolutionary hero, in the 30th year of his death, scientists found Guevara's remains under the old runway of the Bolivian airport of Vallegrande...:
The remains were transported to Cuba and given a state funeral in a mausoleum in Santa Clara, the place where Ché had won his greatest battle for the Cuban Revolution...:
A memorial in front of the mausoleum commemorates him...:
Another - unofficial - memorial is the bus shelter in Vallegrande where the murder happened...:
Guevara's murder was obviously avenged, because six of the politicians and military personnel involved in Che's death have already died violent deaths: They were murdered or died in accidents, including the then military dictator René Barrientos Ortuño...
... who crashed with his helicopter...:
Che's murderer, Sergeant Teràn, who died on March 10, 2022, suffered from cataracts in old age. And in 2007 it was Cuban doctors of all people who restored the man's sight...
