Did Cuba really find Chés remains?
Cuba said it found the remains of revolutionary leader ‘Ché’ Guevara in Bolivia 10 years ago. Now a magazine article has challenged the statement. From Miami Herald staff and wire reports. Posted on Wed, Feb. 14, 2007. A story in a Spanish-Mexican magazine has challenged Cuba’s claim that it found the long-missing remains of revolutionary hero Ernesto ”Ché” Guevara in Bolivia in 1997. Guevara was leading a guerrilla force when he was captured and executed in 1967 by Bolivian army troops assisted by CIA operatives. The remains found in 1997 are now in a mausoleum in the Cuban city of Santa Clara. The Letras Libres magazine reported in this month’s edition that there were several inconsistencies in the identification of the remains recovered in 1997 by a team of Cuban forensic experts from an unmarked grave in Vallegrande, where Guevara’s body was last seen. DISSECTING EVIDENCE According to the report, the remains included a shirt and a belt, supposedly Guevara’s, which could not have
