8 October 1967
Arrest of Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Arrested while organizing guerrilla resistance in Bolivia & executed
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Quebrada del Yuro in Argentina. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Arrested while organizing guerrilla resistance in Bolivia & executed
Bolivian Special Forces are notified of the location of Guevaras guerrilla encampment by an informant, the encampment is encircled, and Guevara captured while leading a detachment with Simeon Cuba Sarabia in the Quebrada del Yuro
Guevara is taken to a dilapidated schoolhouse in the nearby village of La Higuera where he was held overnight
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