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Bolivian historical sites of Ernesto
Flowers sit next to a marker for Ernesto Che Guevara bottom left in Vallegrande Bolivia Saturday Nov. 13 2004 where the body of the executred Ernesto Che Guevara was lay burried with six fellow guerillas on the town's air strip for 30 years. A mausoleum now stands over the open mass grave. The remains were repatriated to Cuba after their discovery in 1997. Guevara was captured by the Bolivian army in 1967 in a nearby valley and executed in La Higuera days later. Guevara and fellow communist guerillas were attempting to launch a continent-wide revolution modeled on Guevara's success in Cuba in the late 1950s. The Bolivian government recently began promoting the area where he fought was captured killed and burried for 30 years as the Ruta del Che or Che's Route.
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Location: Vallegrande Santa Cruz Bolivia
Photo credit: © Kevin Moloney / Aurora Photos / Alamy / Afripics
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