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Gen. Gary Prado Salmón in 2007. Forty years earlier, his unit had been hunting the guerrillas for months when he received a tip from a farmer.Credit…Aizar Raldes/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Gen. Gary Prado Salmón, who as a Bolivian Army captain led the operation that captured the Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara, a critical ally of Fidel Castro’s in the Cuban revolution, in 1967, died on May 6 in a hospital in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. He was 84. His son Gary Prado Arauz announced the death on Facebook but did not give a cause. After leaving Cuba in 1965, Mr. Guevara tried and failed to stoke a Communist revolution movement in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and then he and other guerrillas headed to Bolivia the next year, hoping to overthrow the government of President René Barrientos Ortuño, a general who had seized control of the country in a coup. Captain Prado and his men — part of a C.I.A.-backed special forces unit — had been hunting the guerrillas for months when he received a tip from a farmer, an old friend from school, who said he had seen them in a deep ravine near the small village of La Higuera. At about 1 p.m. on Oct. 8, 1967, Captain Prado heard shouting from the ravine: His soldiers had captured two guerrillas. As one of them surrendered, General Prado later told The New York Times , he called out, “I am Che Guevara, and I’m worth more to you alive than dead.” Mr. Guevara had been wounded in the battle, his gun broken. “He presented a pitiful figure, dirty, smelly and run-down,” General Prado said in a 2017 interview with FT Magazine. “He’d been on the run for months. His hair was long, messy and matted, and his beard bushy.” And, General Prado said, “He had no shoes, just scraps of animal skins on his feet.” Mr. Guevara was held in one room of a small schoolhouse in the nearby village of La Higuera, where he spoke several times with Captain Prado. Asked why he was fighting […]
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