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The Route of Che (la ruta del Che) is the term used to refer to the route followed by the Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara and his men in the region of Ñancahuazú, Bolivia in 1966 and 1967. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This ended with his execution at La Higuera on 9 October 1967, followed by exposure of his body and burial in an unmarked grave in ...
Bolivia had defeated its last major insurgency to date. President Barrientos himself died in a helicopter crash on 27 April 1969. Most of Guevara's men were killed, wounded, or captured in the campaign. On 17 February 1968, five surviving guerrillas, three Cubans and two Bolivians, managed to get to Chile.
August 31 - 9 members of Che Guevara's guerrillas are killed in government ambush; October - Ñancahuazú Guerrilla defeated by Government of Bolivia with CIA assistance. Che Guevara captured and executed
Agustín Morales, President of Bolivia 27 February 1894: Hilarión Daza, former president of Bolivia 17 June 1917: José Manuel Pando, former president of Bolivia 21 July 1946: Gualberto Villarroel, President of Bolivia 9 August 1967: Che Guevara, revolutionary Captured and executed by Bolivian Special Forces 24 May 1989
[14] [15] Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to foment continental revolutions across both Africa and South America, [16] first unsuccessfully in Congo-Kinshasa and later in Bolivia, where he was captured by CIA-assisted Bolivian forces and summarily executed. [17] Guevara remains both a revered and reviled historical figure, polarized in the collective ...
The guerrillas defeated several Bolivian patrols before they were beaten and Guevara was captured and executed. Only five guerrillas managed to survive and flee to Chile. Later that morning on October 9, Bolivian President René Barrientos ordered that Guevara be killed.
During his three-year rule, Barrientos and the army suppressed leftist opposition to his regime, including a guerrilla group led by Che Guevara in 1967. [2] On 27 April 1969, Barrientos was killed in a helicopter crash near Arque, Bolivia. He may have been assassinated, but that has not been conclusively proven. [3]
Bolivia: Revolutionary Nationalist Movement: Defeat. Revolutionary victory; Guerrilla Warfare in Bolivia (1966–1970) Bolivia United States: ELN Cuba: Government Victory. Guerillas defeated; Che Guevara executed; Osvaldo Peredo Exiled