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Soldier who ‘killed’ Che Guevara dies in Bolivia

11 March 2022 09:55 (UTC +04:00)

The former Bolivian soldier who claimed to have shot dead Marxist revolutionary hero Ernesto “Che” Guevara died on Thursday aged 80, his relatives said, APA reports citing Punchng.

Mario Teran Salazar shot dead Argentine-born Guevara on October 9, 1967, in the eastern Santa Cruz province of Bolivia at the height of the Cold War.

“He died. He was ill and nothing could be done,” Gary Prado, a former Bolivian soldier who helped capture Guevara in the jungle region 54 years ago told AFP.

“The family and comrades from the armed forces told me because he was being treated in the military hospital” in the eastern city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

The hospital declined to comment on Teran’s death due to “medical confidentiality.”