Modern Era · South America · Politics
1967
Che Guevara killed in Bolivia
1967
After leaving Cuba to foment revolution elsewhere, Ernesto Che Guevara was tracked down in a Bolivian valley by CIA-trained rangers, captured, and shot the next day in a rural schoolhouse. He was thirty-nine. Before he died he stared at his executioner and said, Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man. His face became a T-shirt.
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Also in 1967 (5 other events on record)
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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