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...prisoners was no ordinary guerrilla. He was Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, 39, the elusive Marxist firebrand, guerrilla expert and former second in command to Fidel Castro whose name had be come a legend after his disappearance from Cuba 2| years ago. Since that time, much of the world had thought Che dead (perhaps even at Castro's hands) until his presence in Bolivia was dramatically confirmed a short time ago (TIME, Sept...
Dressed in a dusty fatigue shirt, faded green trousers and lightweight, high-top sandals, Che caught a bullet in his left thigh as he advanced toward the government troops; another bullet knocked his M-l semiautomatic carbine right out of his hands. In Che's rucksack, the Rangers found a book entitled Essays on Contemporary Capitalism, several codes, two war diaries, some messages of support from "Ariel"-apparently Castro-and a personal notebook. "It seems," read one recent notebook entry in Che's tight, crisp handwriting, "that this is reaching...
...evidence, Bolivia said, was captured last month when an army patrol discovered the guerrillas' main base on a 2,500-acre farm north of Camiri. Though the guerrillas managed to escape from the raid, they left behind a roll of undeveloped film, a book described as Che's "war diary" and 21 forged passports from seven Latin American countries. The Bolivians found the evidence so impressive that President Rene Barrientos himself showed it off in La Paz, while his foreign minister presented it in Washington, where the Organization of American States was opening a meeting to consider...
Remarkable Transformation. Two of the passports, both Uruguayan, show a jowly, balding man with heavy tortoise-shell glasses and a fringe of grey around his temples-not at all like the dashing, bearded Che of old. Then from the film came pictures of the same man in the guerrilla jungle camps. Gradually, in sequential frames of the film, a transformation occurs. He abandons the glasses, dons a rakish cap, sprouts a beard. Over a period of weeks he begins to look remarkably like Che when he came out of Cuba's Sierra Maestra with Castro...
From the passports, the government also took thumbprints and compared them with the prints from Che's military records in Argentina. They matched. Carrying the names of Adolfo Mena and Ramon Benitez Fernandez, the two passports show that Che -if it was he-came to Bolivia briefly in 1963, returned for a few days last October, and came back again last March. The government claims that he went directly to the farm, which had been bought by a Castro front man. Setting up headquarters in some caves on the ranch, the guerrillas laid in large supplies of food...