Che guevara where is he buried

Down a dirt track, plaques and a mural mark the Fosa de Guerrilleros, the area where some of the bodies were found. Nearby, the leftist Bolivian President Evo Morales inaugurated the Ernesto Che Guevara Cultural Centre last year — a low-slung white building with an auditorium, handicraft shop and a library.

Outside, a garden of remembrance is decorated with their memorial stones. Today Guevara cuts a more controversial figure: a romantic hero or a murderous thug, depending on your point of view. But whatever you think of him, what is clear is that the legend of Che lives on. Especially in Vallegrande.

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Start your Independent Premium subscription today. You can see the infamous sink where his body was laid out to be photographed Getty. The Cuban government news agency Prensa Latina said the coffins were welcomed with military honors. The Bolivian government confirmed Saturday that seven bodies found in a common grave on June 28 included those of Guevara and three other Cuban revolutionaries, killed in their ill-fated attempt to spark a peasant uprising in Bolivia in In death, Guevara became an almost legendary figure.

Posters of the bearded, beret-wearing Guevara became a staple in college dormitory rooms in the s. Argentine, Cuban and Bolivian forensic anthropologists had examined the skeletons under tight security since the grave was discovered at the edge of the Vallegrande airport, miles west of Santa Cruz. A member of the Nazi Party, he ran an enamel-works factory in Krakow during the German occupation of Poland, employing workers from the nearby Jewish ghetto. When the Williams had spoken out against the right of civil authorities to punish religious dissension and to confiscate Native American land.

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