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...When Bolivian troops seized and killed Ernesto ("Che") Guevara last October, they got an unexpected dividend...
...plain but brave Bolivian soldier, who has just crushed the Castro-Communist intruders, giving thus a breath of relief to the Americas. J. L. COóRDOVA ELENA SALINAS A. J. CALDERON La Paz, Bolivia...
...joint participants in the recent guerrilla uprising in Bolivia, French Marxist Jules Régis Debray and Castroite Guerrilla Che Guevara unwittingly betrayed each other. The betrayal cost Che his life last month. Last week Debray paid with his freedom. After a 53-day trial in the steaming Bolivian oil town of Camiri, a military court found the dashing young (27) French intellectual guilty of murder, theft and rebellion. It sentenced him to 30 years in prison...
...stood trial with Debray, and British Free lance Photographer George Roth, who was later released. At first, Debray claimed that he was a journalist on assignment for a Mexican magazine and backed up his claim by describing how he had interviewed Che Guevara in the bush. That gave the Bolivian government its first real evidence that the elusive Che was actually leading the guerrilla movement, and the army immediately stepped up its anti-guerrilla offensive to try to get him. Eventually, it stamped out most of the 50-member band and captured and executed Che himself...
...revolutionary work. In this sense, I not only affirm but demand that the tribunal consider me morally and politically co-responsible for the acts of my guerrilla comrades." And so it did; Bustos, his Argentine comrade, was sentenced at the same time to 30 years. After the sentencing, the Bolivian army seemed determined to close the whole Debray matter, which has become a cause celebre in France. The court's legal adviser denied permission for any appeals and, as defense attorneys rose to protest, Court President Efraín Gauchalla banged his gavel so angrily that it snapped...