The Death of Che Guevara

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In October 1967 the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara was captured and killed in Bolivia. He had gone there to try to organise a Cuban-style revolution. Mike Lanchin has spoken to Felix Rodriguez, the CIA operative who helped track him down, and was one of the last people to speak to him.

(Photo: Felix Rodriguez (left) with the captured Che Guevara, shortly before his execution on 9 October 1967. Courtesy of Felix Rodriguez)

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1:10.2	there I'm Mike Lanchin Today we're going back to October of
1:14.6	1967 when the Marxist revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara was captured and
1:20.4	killed in Bolivia. In 2014 I spoke to Felix Rodriguez, a CIA
1:26.7	operative who helped track him down. I got everything here from that day from different Shecavirus capture this picture of
1:35.0	Shay on his passport this back here is the from the coldbook of Shay. At home in
1:41.4	Miami Felix Rodriguez shows off souvenirs from one of the proudest moments in his long career fighting communism.
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