peribiden La Paz, Bolivia: The former Bolivian army who claimed to have shot the Marxist Revolutionary Hero who was dead Ernesto “Che” Guevara died on Thursday 80 years old, his brothers said.
Mario Teran Salazar was shot dead by Guevara born Argentina on October 9, 1967 in the province of Santa Cruz Timur Bolivia at the top of the Cold War.
“He died. He was sick and nothing could be done,” Gary Prado, a former Bolivian soldier who helped arrest Guevara in the forest 54 years ago told AFP.
“Families and friends from the armed forces told me because he was being treated at a military hospital” in the eastern city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
The hospital refused to comment on the death of Teran because of “medical confidentiality.”
Guevara was arrested on October 8, 1967 by a Bolivian army with the help of two CIA agents of Cuba America.
Guevara led a small group of guerrillas against troops despite hunger and disease.
A guevara who was injured was brought to the school left in La Higuera Village where he spent that night.
The next day he was full of bullets by Teran, with the approval of President Rene Barrientos (1964-69), a strong anti-communist.
“It was the worst moment of my life. At that moment Che looked big, big, very big. His eyes shone intensely,” said Teran later.
“I felt that he was above me and when he fixed my gaze, I felt dizzy. I thought that with a quick movement Che could disarm me.
“‘Be calm,” he told me, “and aimed well. You will kill a man.”
“So I stepped back to the door, closed my eyes and was fired.”
Guevara, who was only 39 years old, became a legend when his institution with open eyes was shown like a trophy in the neighboring city of Valtegrande, for a moment immortalized by AFP Marc Hutten photographer.
After 30 years of army services, the retirement was anonymity, avoiding the press.
He even went as far as denying that he killed Guevara.
Born in Rosario, Argentina, Guevara studied medicine and then traveled throughout Latin America.
He met Cuba Brothers Fidel and Raul Castro in Mexico and joined their revolutionary forces in Power in Cuba in 1959, expelling the US-supported Fulgencio Batista dictator.
Guevara will then fail to trigger a similar Marxist revolution in Congo and then Bolivia.
