Friday, November 9, 2007

PART – 8

Che Guevara gave medical attention to all of the wounded Bolivian soldiers whom the guerrillas took prisoner, and subsequently released them. Even after his last battle at the Quebrada del Yuro, in which he had been wounded.

When he was taken to a temporary holding location and saw there a number of Bolivian soldiers who had also been wounded in the fighting, he offered to give them medical care but his offer was turned down by the Bolivian officer in charge.

On October 1967 the Bolivian Special Forces were notified of the location of Guevara's guerrilla encampment by an informant and the encampment was encircled. Guevara was captured while leading a detachment with Simeón Cuba Sarabia in the Quebrada del Yuro ravine. He was taken prisoner after being wounded in the legs and having his rifle destroyed by a bullet.

The hunt for Guevara in Bolivia was headed by Félix Rodríguez, a CIA agent, who previously had infiltrated Cuba to prepare contacts with the rebels in the Escambray Mountains and the anti-Castro underground in Havana prior to the Bay of Pigs invasion, and had been successfully extracted from Cuba afterwards.

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