Bolivia Identifies Che Guevara’s Body

Three decades after Che Guevara left Cuba on a doomed crusade to spread communism, the Argentine revolutionary’s remains were positively identified and returned to his adopted homeland. A Cuban plane flew to Santa Cruz to retrieve the remains, turned over in an elaborate transfer between Bolivian and Cuban government officials. The Bolivian government confirmed that seven bodies found in a common grave June 28 included those of Guevara and three Cuban revolutionaries. Born in Argentina, Guevara fought alongside Fidel Castro in Cuba’s communist revolution and was the island nation’s second-most-influential leader until he returned to South America to foment rebellion there. Bolivian forces seized and executed Guevara and other rebels in October 1967. Guevara’s remains will be buried in Santa Clara, the official Cuban newspaper Granma reported.