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World Service,24 Aug 1999,4 mins

Che Guevara

My Century

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In 1967 the Latin-American guerilla leader Che Guevara was killed in Bolivia. Richard Gott was there when the security forces showed his body to the press and used photos of Guevara alive to authenticate the identity of the corpse.

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