Tuesday, October 10, 1967
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Guevara believed killed in Bolivian insurrection
LA PAZ —(UPI)— A Bolivian army commander said his troops shot and killed Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Fidel Castro's former right-hand man, in a fight with Communist guerrillas.
Government officials declined to confirm the report today until the body could be examined by experts. There was some skepticism about the claim because of many previous reports of the death of Cuba's one-time revolutionary chief. Guevara disappeared mysteriously in March, 1965.
American officials in Washington said if the report is true, it could be a crushing blow to guerrillas in Bolivia and elsewhere in Latin America.
Col. Joaquin Zenteno Anaya, commander of the army's 8th division, which has been hunting the guerrillas for more than six months, said his jungle-trained ranger troops killed three guerrillas and captured two others in a clash Sunday.
Informed sources said that among the dead was "Commandante Ramon," a pseudonym believed used by Guevara.
President Rene Barriientos, who has stated that Guevara has led the Bolivian guerrillas since their insurrection broke into the open six months ago, remained silent today, awaiting positive identification of the slain revolutionary
Experts were flying to Vallegrande, the little southern Bolivia
town where the bodies were taken, with copies of Guevara's fingerprints.
The fingerprints were supplied by Argentina, where Guevara was born and educated as a physician. Following a revolutionary career throughout much of Latin America, Guevara aided Castro in seizing the Havana government.
After Guevara dropped out of sight in 1965, Castro said his henchman had taken up duties elsewhere in the world revolutionary movement and recently quoted Guevara as calling for "many Vietnams" to combat the United States.
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'Commie guerillas have problems'
Communist guerrilla campaigns in South America have been meeting with little success because of the firmness with which local villages are established, Foreign Service officer Daniel H. Clare said Monday.
Speaking to some journalism students in Flint Hall, Clare also mentioned the severe technical and supply problems which contribute to the lack of success that the Cuban-led "revolutions" have been receiving.
Clare is visiting the campus to recruit students for foreign service careers.
South America is independent
In an opening statement, he pointed out that, of the 3500 officers stationed abroad with our 300 foreign service posts, only 25 per cent are political appointees, a number much lower than commonly believed.
Clare said society in South America, especially in the villages was too firmly and independently established to be quickly converted to something as different as Communism.
To back up his point, Clare spoke of a story told often in Ecuador:
“五男 went up into the mountains to set up their own guerrilla base from which they were going to sweep down, inspire the peasants, and take over the government. Five days later, starving and suffering from dysentery, the revolutionaries were caught stealing chickens from a local farmer. When the five tried to inspire the angry farmer, he called the police, saying his chickens were more important. Thus ended the revolution.”
Clare emphasized the environment in South America is changing, and we are making progress in selling capitalistic democracy. He pointed to what he termed the "exciting" idea of a common market for the area, and said it was
Environment changing
"not just a promise, but something for which a lot of people are actively working for."
In answer to another question, Clare said that there was a "misconception" of the Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.) and their connections with embassies overseas. He said that the C.I.A.'s job was to collect information of all kinds, of which only about five per cent is not published public information.
Clare reminded students applications for the State Department examination have to be in by Nov. 21. He urged all interested students to take it.
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