Hump Day History
On this day in 1967, Ernesto "Che" Guevara was executed by the Bolivian army. His body was buried in an unmarked grave, but in 1997 his remains were found and sent back to Cuba. Castro held a large ceremony for the revolutionary who helped him seize power from Batista in 1959.
Before that, Guevara was a medical student at the University of Buenos Aires. He took time off to travel around South America on a motorcycle, and his memoirs were published posthumously.
He received his medical degree in 1953 but continued traveling, becoming more involved in left-wing organizations. It was the mid-50's when he met Fidel and his group of exiles in Mexico.
By 1963, serving as minister of industry, he and Fidel had some differences over Cuba's economic and foreign policies, so he left. Apparently he traveled to Africa before being found in Bolivia. The US government wanted him held for interrogation, but Bolivian officials feared a public trial would garner him too much sympathy.
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