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—— ON THIS DAY ——
OCTOBER 9, 1967
La Higuera, Bolivia
59 years ago
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, the Argentine-born revolutionary and veteran of the Cuban Revolution, captured by the Bolivian army on October 8, 1967, and executed the following day.
On October 8, 1967, a Bolivian army ranger unit trained and advised by the United States surrounded a small band of guerrillas in a ravine called the Quebrada del Yuro. Their leader, wounded in the leg and with his rifle disabled by a bullet, was taken prisoner and carried to the nearby village of La Higuera, where he was held overnight in a mud-walled schoolhouse. He was Ernesto Guevara, known to the world as Che, the second most famous figure of the Cuban Revolution.
The Bolivian high command did not want a public trial. Early in the afternoon of October 9, a sergeant named Mario Teran, chosen by lot, entered the schoolroom and shot the prisoner. The body was flown to the town of Vallegrande and displayed to journalists on a laundry sink in the hospital. The hands were removed for fingerprint identification. The remains were then buried in secret beside an airstrip, where they stayed hidden for thirty years.
—— MARQUEE EVENT ——
Guerrillero Heroico, the photograph of Guevara taken by Alberto Korda in Havana on March 5, 1960, which became one of the most widely reproduced images in history.
Guevara was born in Rosario, Argentina, in 1928, into a middle-class family, and trained as a physician. Long journeys through Latin America as a young man, including the motorcycle trip he later described in his diaries, convinced him that poverty across the continent had a common cause and required a continental revolution. In Mexico City in 1955 he met Fidel Castro, joined his expedition as its doctor, and emerged from two years of guerrilla war in the Sierra Maestra as one of its most effective commanders. His capture of the city of Santa Clara in the last days of 1958 sealed the fall of the Batista government.
In the new Cuba he ran the La Cabana fortress prison, where he oversaw the tribunals and firing squads that executed officials of the old regime, a record his critics regard as the core of his legacy. He then headed the national bank and the ministry of industries, with poor economic results. Restless in government and committed to spreading revolution, he left Cuba in 1965, led a failed mission in the Congo, and in late 1966 slipped into Bolivia in disguise. The campaign there was a disaster from the start: local peasants did not join, the Bolivian Communist Party withheld support, and the army closed in within eleven months.
His death did what his last campaigns had not. Korda's photograph, taken seven years earlier at a memorial rally and almost unpublished until 1967, spread across the world on posters and banners during the student revolts of 1968 and has never gone away. It has been used to sell everything from protest to vodka. His remains were found in 1997 and reburied with state honors in Santa Clara. To admirers he stands for self-sacrifice and resistance to injustice; to detractors, for political executions and a dictatorship he helped build. The image has long since detached itself from the man.
—— WHY THIS MATTERS ——
Guevara's theory of guerrilla war influenced a generation of insurgencies. His idea that a small armed group could itself create the conditions for revolution inspired movements across Latin America and Africa, most of which, like his own in Bolivia, ended in defeat.
His image became a global symbol independent of his record. The Korda portrait is a case study in how a photograph can come to stand for rebellion in general, worn by people who know little about the person in it.
He remains one of the most contested figures of the Cold War. Assessments of Guevara still divide sharply along political lines, particularly among Cubans on and off the island, and the argument shows how unsettled the legacy of the Cuban Revolution remains.
—— THE TAKEAWAY ——
On October 9, 1967, a wounded prisoner was shot in a schoolhouse in the Bolivian hills after a failed eleven-month campaign. The Bolivian army wanted him forgotten and buried him in secret. A photograph taken years earlier made sure that the opposite happened.
—— QUOTE OF THE DAY ——
“Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.”
— Che Guevara, reported last words, La Higuera, October 9, 1967
—— OUR QUIZ OF THE DAY ——
How much do you know about Che Guevara, his role in the Cuban Revolution, the failed Bolivian campaign, and the photograph that made his face famous?
