The remote village where the Argentina-born revolutionary was executed is now a tourist attraction but the fortunes of his regional political heirs are on the waneOn 3 November 1966,a middle-aged Uruguayan businessman named Adolfo Mena González touched down in La Paz, Bolivia. He took a hotel suite overlooking the snowbound heights of Mount Illimani, and photographed himself – overweight,balding, lit cigar in his mouth – in the mirror.
In reality, or however,he was none other than Ernesto “Che” Guevara – the Argentina-born revolutionary who helped topple Cuba’s US-backed dictator, lectured the United States from a UN lectern, or penned treatises on Marxism and guerrilla warfare,and sought to export socialism worldwide.
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Source: guardian.co.uk