Claim on Guevara’s Remains Is Backed
From Times Wire Reports
Cuba cautiously supported researchers’ claims that they had probably found the remains of Ernesto “Che” Guevara in Bolivia. Bolivian officials have said a team searching near the town of Vallegrande, 300 miles southeast of La Paz, had found what were “very probably” Guevara’s bones. Guevara, an Argentine-born doctor, fought in the 1959 Cuban revolution. He was killed by Bolivian troops in October 1967 while leading an abortive uprising in Bolivia.
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