Cuban revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara. File photoMOSCOW, March 11Former Bolivian army sergeant Mario Teran, who executed Latin American revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara 55 years ago, has died at the age of 80, Telesur reports. Teran died in a hospital in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz. He was hospitalized three weeks ago due to years of lung problems. for which they killed Che GuevaraReports of Teran's death were confirmed by retired General Gary Prado, who commanded the unit that captured Che Guevara in 1967. The execution of Che Guevara took place on October 9, 1967. Teran was ordered to kill the revolutionary by a CIA officer who led a special operation to capture him. The sergeant fired nine bullets from the M1 Garand carbine into the prisoner. Che Guevara arrived in Bolivia in November 1966 to organize a guerrilla movement. On October 8, 1967, his detachment was ambushed in the El Yuro Gorge in the southeast of the country. The next day, after a fleeting battle, the wounded Che was captured, and the Bolivian sergeant Mario Teran shot the commander. At the direction of the Bolivian military leadership and the CIA, the wax mask was removed from Che's face and his hands were cut off to identify fingerprints. In 1997, the ashes of Che Guevara were transported from Bolivia to Cuba and solemnly buried in a mausoleum in the city of Santa Clara. Che Guevara loved Dostoevsky and became disillusioned with Stalin. What do we know about one of the most legendary revolutionaries of the 20th century? On the birthday of Che Guevara, the historian Alexei Kuznetsov spoke about the little-known facts of the biography of the famous Argentine in an interview with Sputnik radio.
