On October 9, 1967, Ernesto Che Guevara (Ernesto Che Guevara) and 22 other guerrilla fighters were captured and executed at age 39 by Bolivian soldiers trained, equipped and led by American Green Berets and CIA agents on October 10, 1967, Guevara's body was unveiled to the international press in the laundry room of a hospital in Valle Grande. Bolivian soldiers and journalists surrounded Guevara's body. Under the laundry table, two dead guerrillas lay on the ground, both with their chests exposed, scarlet blood on their body wounds, shawls wrapped around them, and goatees.
On October 7, 1967, an informant informed Bolivian Special Forces of the location in the Yuro Valley where Guevara was encamped with guerrillas; on October 8, a battle in the Churro Valley in the Andes Mountains with a guerrilla force of around 20 men and a Bolivian government army ranger battalion led by Captain Gary Prado He was captured. Guevara was tied up and taken to a dilapidated mud schoolhouse in the nearby village of La Ighera on the night of October 8, and on the morning of October 9, Bolivian President Rene Barrientos ordered Guevara killed. He ordered that Guevara not be shot in the head in order to make it appear that Guevara had been killed in battle with the Bolivian army.
A 27-year-old Bolivian army sergeant named Mario Teran entered the hut to execute Guevara. Guevara was shot a total of nine times by Teran beginning at about 0:45 p.m. on October 9: five times in the leg, once in the right shoulder and arm, and once in the chest and throat. He was pronounced dead at 1:10 p.m. on October 9. After the execution, Guevara's body was strapped to a helicopter landing skid and taken to a hospital in Valle Grande, southeastern Bolivia, for autopsy and embalming. missing and buried in a mass grave in Vallegrande. The re-excavated body was repatriated to Cuba and re-interred in 1997 in honor of the Cuban nation.
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