On the 8th of October 1967, this man, Mr. Ernesto Che Guevara, died.
You can look up his life but I prefer to speak of his death .
Look up an extensive chronology of his death here
On Guevara's assassination:On October 9th, 1967, Ernesto "Che" Guevara was put to death by Bolivian soldiers, trained, equipped and guided by U.S. Green Beret and CIA operatives. His execution remains a historic and controversial event; and thirty years later, the circumstances of his guerrilla foray into Bolivia, his capture, killing, and burial are still the subject of intense public interest and discussion around the world.
As part of the thirtieth anniversary of the
death of Che Guevara, the National Security Archive's
Cuba Documentation Project is posting a selection of key CIA,
State Department, and Pentagon documentation relating to
Guevara and
his death. This electronic documents book is compiled from
declassified records obtained by the National Security Archive,
and by authors of two new books on Guevara: Jorge Castañeda's Compañero: The Life and Death of Che
Guevara (Knopf), and Henry Butterfield Ryan's The Fall of Che Guevara
(Oxford
University Press). The selected documents, presented in order of
the events they depict, provide only a partial picture of U.S.
intelligence and military assessments, reports and
extensive operations to track and "destroy" Che Guevara's
guerrillas in Bolivia; thousands of CIA and military records on
Guevara remain classified. But they do offer significant and
valuable information on the high-level U.S. interest in tracking his
revolutionary activities, and U.S. and Bolivian actions leading up
to his death.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB5/
White House Memorandum, October 11, 1967:
In another daily update, Walt Rostow reports to President Johnson
that "we are 99% sure that 'Che' Guevara is dead."
Rostow believes the decision to execute Guevara "is stupid," but he also
points out his death "shows the soundness of our 'preventive medicine'
assistance to countries facing incipient insurgency--it was
the Bolivian 2nd Ranger Battalion,
trained by our Green Berets from June-September of this year,
that cornered him and got him."
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