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On October 17, 1967, Che wrote the last notes in his notebook that he carefully kept since November of the previous year.

He started his first paragraphs expressing: “Eleven months have passed from our guerrilla beginning without bucolic complications…”.

He told how it was necessary to arrest an old woman that herding sheep, she had walked into the canyon where they had camped. Later, at the end, he wrote:

“The army gave a strange information about the presence of 250 men in Serrano to block the passage of the fences in 37 number giving the area of ​​our refuge between the River Acero and El Oro. The news seems to be  a distracction. And he concludes telling that they are at 2 thousand meters high, more than the Cuban Turquino Peak.

The guerrillas were about one league from La Higuera, another from Jagüey and 2 from Pucará. They had gone a long way and they hope to break the fence in the night of October 8. The area was full of soldiers.

About his last combat:

In a broken ravine Che had been settled with the purpose of waiting for the shadows´ arrival that reach with the sunset. The security measures were taken and the location of all was indicated, indicating the meeting place in case of any encounter with the enemy.

A large troop was following their footsteps and the siege was narrowed. About one in the afternoon the soldiers made contact with the guerrillas. The small group of men who composed it at that time fought heroically until the night, from their individual positions, in different places in that area of ​​the Quebrada de El Yuro.

In spite of being hurt Che fought, until the enemy shots fired the rifle. His gun had not charger. In this way he was taken prisoner.

Che, due to his leg injuries, had to be helped until he reached La Higuera, a small town, where in a small school he was thrown on the ground next to Simón Cuba Sarabia (Willi) and Juan Pablo Chang Navarro (El Chino).

He refused to discuss a single word with his captors and a drunk officer who tried to harass him received a slap in the face. Che stayed alive in that way, almost 24 hours.

The president of Bolivia in La Paz, meeting with senior military chiefs in blood cold made the decision to murder him.

On October 9 rangers trained by the Yankees instructed a subofficial to carry out the crime. Che had heard the shots that took the life of Willi and El Chino and when facing the executioner he said: Shoot! Do not be afraid! But he moved away, and motivated by his superiors and drunk as he was, he shot a burst from the waist down.

This draw out the agony of Che, until a sergeant, also drunk, shot him in the left side and finished him off.

In this way the Heroic Guerrilla lost his life, died to live forever among us. This was his last combat in Bolivia, because in the current and difficult battles we face, he is at our side, encouraging us with his example, without rest, to march …
Until victory forever. (Manuel Lauredo Román / PHOTO: Archive)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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