Historic photos of Dead Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara found

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A reproduction taken on November 7, 2014, shows a picture of the corpse of Argentine Marxist revolutionary, Ernesto “Che” Guevara displayed in the Bolivian town of Vallegrande, and taken on October 10, 1967 by former AFP journalist Marc Hutten (AFP Photo/Javier Soriano)

  • Imanol Arteaga has said photos showing Che Guevara’s dead body in 1967 were given to his uncle by an AFP journalist
  • His uncle, Luis Cuartero, was a missionary in Bolivia at the time
  • Guevara was killed on October 9, 1967 and had been captured the day before by the Bolivian army
  • WARNING: Graphic images

An Argentine-born doctor, Ernesto “Che” Guevara came to world prominence as a senior member of Fidel Castro’s revolutionary regime in Cuba. Hunted by the CIA, he was captured by the military in Bolivia on October 8, 1967, and executed the following day. His body was displayed to the press in the village of Vallegrande before being buried in secret. Arteaga believes it was Hutten who gave the photographs to Cuartero, possibly as a means of getting them quickly out of the country.

Lost for half a century, historic photographs of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara taken by an AFP photographer shortly after his execution have come to light in a small Spanish town.

The dark-bearded guerilla leader lies in a stretcher with his dead eyes open, his bare chest stained with blood and dirt, in the eight black and white photographs taken after he was shot by the Bolivian army in October 1967.

The photographs belong to Imanol Arteaga, a local councillor in the northern Spanish town of Ricla. He inherited them from his uncle Luis Cuartero, a missionary in Bolivia in the 1960s.

“He brought back the photographs when he came for my parents’ wedding in November 1967,” said Arteaga, 45. “My aunt and my mother told me a French journalist had given them to him.”

He and his aunt found the photos among Cuartero’s belongings after the missionary died in 2012. “I remembered he had photographs of Che Guevara and my aunt said: ‘Yes, I know where they are,” Arteaga said. “They were in boxes with a load of photos of Bolivia.”

Death of a revolutionary
Other rare colour photographs of Guevara’s body by AFP correspondent Marc Hutten, taken after it was laid out by Bolivian soldiers, were published in the international media at the time.
But one of the newly discovered shots seems to have been taken at a different moment. In it, Che appears with matted hair and a jacket crudely buttoned around his chest.

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