It is through his relentless work that he became the countercultural symbol of rebellion and revolution. The fighting had been fierce. CIA, The Fall of Che Guevara and the Changing Face of the Cuban Revolution, October 18, 1965 This intelligence memorandum, written by a young CIA analyst, Brian Latell, presents an assessment that Guevara's preeminence as a leader of the Cuban revolution has waned, and his internal and international policies have been abandoned. DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS. On October 9, 1967, socialist revolutionary and guerilla leader Che Guevara, age 39, is killed by the Bolivian army. Che Guevara is executed. Che Guevara was a legendary political activist, who dedicated his life to bring about the downfall of imperialism and the establishment of socialism. CIA, The Fall of Che Guevara and the Changing Face of the Cuban Revolution, October 18, 1965 This intelligence memorandum, written by a young CIA analyst, Brian Latell, presents an assessment that Guevara's preeminence as a leader of the Cuban revolution has waned, and his internal and international policies have been abandoned. The U.S.-military-backed Bolivian forces captured Guevara on October 8 while battling his band of guerillas in Bolivia and executed him the following day. November 11, 1967. Che Guevara, byname of Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, (born June 14, 1928, Rosario, Argentina—died October 9, 1967, La Higuera, Bolivia), theoretician and tactician of guerrilla warfare, prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution (1956–59), and guerrilla leader in South America. Guerrillero Heroico (English: "Heroic Guerrilla Fighter") is an iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara taken by Alberto Korda. Che had been among the first casualties and his comrades had been fighting viciously to recover the body. The birth certificate stated the child was born on 14 th June, 1928, but Ernesto Guevara’s biographer, Jon Anderson who authored the book, “Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life”, mentioned that the actual date of his birth was a month earlier, i.e. They brought Che Guevara at five o'clock in the afternoon of October 9 to the airfield outside the small town of Vallegrande in southeastern Bolivia. Moments before he was shot to death by a soldier of the Bolivian government, the revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara told his executioner, “Shoot, coward! 14 th May, 1928. Che Guevara was a prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution who went on to become a guerrilla leader in South America. DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS. It was captured on March 5, 1960, in Havana, Cuba, at a memorial service for victims of the La Coubre explosion. Writer Canek Sanchez, the grandson of guerrilla Ernesto "Che" Guevara, died in Mexico City after heart surgery, family members and officials at the funeral home where the wake is …