Kurai Tsuki
17th March 2004, 00:36
Che Guevara traveled to Bolivia in an attempt to aid a popular uprising there, but there are many factors which he simply did not predict. First of all, there was an American presence in Bolivia; after the U.S. government learned of his location, CIA operatives were sent into Bolivia to aid the anti-insurrection effort, and the anti-insurrectionists where being armed and trained by American officials. There was also the lack of help which Che had expected when he undertook the journey. For example, Fidel had told him that the communist party in Bolivia would aid him in the insurrection but they did not.
Che and his insurrectionists found themselves cornered in Bolivia, the American aid to the Bolivian government on one end, and the lack of assistance from his allies. In addition to this, the CIA also helped anti-Castro Cuban exiles (bourgeois Cubans who left Cuba because they did not approve of the Agrarian Reform plan) to set up interrogation houses for those Bolivians who were thought to be assisting Che Guevara and/or his guerillas, which were often used for torture of these individuals.
The anti-insurrectionists where notified of the location of Guevaras guerilla encampment by a deserter; the encampment was encircled and Che was captured. Che was summarily executed by order of the Bolivian government and by suggestion of the American government; he was taken to a rugged old schoolhouse and bound to the wall. Ernesto Guevara did however have the fortune of having last words before his death, he said to his executioner, Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man, after which he was shot in the heart.
Che and his insurrectionists found themselves cornered in Bolivia, the American aid to the Bolivian government on one end, and the lack of assistance from his allies. In addition to this, the CIA also helped anti-Castro Cuban exiles (bourgeois Cubans who left Cuba because they did not approve of the Agrarian Reform plan) to set up interrogation houses for those Bolivians who were thought to be assisting Che Guevara and/or his guerillas, which were often used for torture of these individuals.
The anti-insurrectionists where notified of the location of Guevaras guerilla encampment by a deserter; the encampment was encircled and Che was captured. Che was summarily executed by order of the Bolivian government and by suggestion of the American government; he was taken to a rugged old schoolhouse and bound to the wall. Ernesto Guevara did however have the fortune of having last words before his death, he said to his executioner, Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man, after which he was shot in the heart.