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...launch a similar movement from the sparsely populated hinterlands. Too late, Che discovered that the country's peasants were more likely to betray than to befriend guerrilla fighters. Unable to count on aid from the people he was hoping to convert, Che was trapped and later executed by Bolivian soldiers...
...left. He courted the same loose coalition of students, workers, and young, socially oriented military officers that Bolivia's flamboyant General René Barrientos had used as a power base during his regime. Ovando brought left-wing intellectuals into his Cabinet, expropriated the holdings of American-owned Bolivian Gulf Oil Co., and gave Communist labor leaders free reign in the troubled, underproductive tin mines. But after a few months, conservative businessmen and military hard-liners helped edge Ovando back toward the center, alienating many of his former supporters. He dropped the leftists in his Cabinet and ordered into retirement...
...storage in data banks by different branches of the government, by private firms, or by complexes such as the Cambridge Project, is a logical product of the bureaucratic and technological rationale for investigation, more information, and expertise. Whether the subject be the political behavior of Guatemalan peasants or Bolivian tin miners, the reaction to urbanization of South Vietnamese peasants or ghetto blacks, the rationale is that if only we had more Knowledge about the problem, if only data were quantifiable and immediately retrievable, then human behavior and events would be more predictable and thus more controllable. It is a logical...
After Che finally accepted Bolivian radio reports of Tania's death, his diary entries reflected no remorse. But, St. George says, he later found a poem that Che dedicated to Tania...
...month after Tania died, Che's band was trapped in a ravine by pursuing Bolivian rangers, who had been trained by U.S. Special Forces experts On Oct. 8, 1967, as the guerrillas attempted to fight their way out of the encirclement, Che was hit in the left thigh by a bullet and his M-l carbine was shot out of his hands. Taken alive to a nearby village, Che was executed the next day. After his hands were cut off for further fingerprinting, Che's body was burned beyond recognition and buried in a secret grave...