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                                                                         OCTOBER 9, 1967.
WORLD-RENOWNED REVOLUTIONARY
CHE GUEVARA
IS DEAD
AT THE AGE OF THIRTY-NINE.
The charismatic Argentinian revolutionary had
been leading guerilla ﬁ ghters in the jungles
of Bolivia and was captured by the Bolivian
army. Mario Terán, a sergeant in the Bolivian
army, volunteered to execute the prisoner. He
carried out the bloody assignment with nine
point-blank shots to Guevara’s body.
Around the globe, reactions to the assassi-
nation were mixed. In Cuba, where Guevara
had helped overthrow a brutally repressive
dictatorship in 1959, more than one million
people mourned openly. But in the United
States and elsewhere, many business leaders
and government o
cials were relieved.
Guevara’s anti-capitalist movement sought to
strip big businesses of their land and power.
He wanted to set up socialist systems to
spread wealth and resources among ordinary
workers—in Latin America and all around the
world. To the rich and powerful, Guevara was a
dangerous threat.
Why did the assassination happen? How did
the ﬁ ercely independent and internationally
admired revolutionary leader end his life as
a captive in a tiny Bolivian village? Why did
he die a hunted man, without a fair trial, at
the hands of a Bolivian soldier? How did his
story become a legend? In this chronicle of
an assassination, ﬁ nd out what inspired the
myth of Che Guevara and what brought him to
this bloody crossroads of history.
A Junior Library Guild Selection
REINFORCED BINDING
                                                                         STUART A. KALLEN
TwenTy-FirsT CenTury Books / Minneapolis
          Copyright © 2013 by Stuart A. Kallen
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kallen, Stuart A., 1955–
Che Guevara : you win or you die / by Stuart A. Kallen.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 978–0–8225–9035–4 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
1. Guevara, Ernesto, 1928–1967—Juvenile literature. 2. Guerrillas—Latin
America—Biography—Juvenile literature. 3. Revolutionaries—Cuba—Biography—
Juvenile literature. 4. Cuba—History—1959–1990—Juvenile literature. 5. Latin
America—History—1948–1980—Juvenile literature. I. Title.
F2849.22.G85K36 2013
980.03’5092—dc23 [B]
20110 454 8 0
Manufactured in the United States of America
1 – BP – 7/15/12
INTRODUCTION:
SHOTS HEARD ROUND THE WORLD
5
CHAPTER ONE:
THE MAKING OF A REBEL
9
CHAPTER TWO:
A GUERRILLA WARRIOR
25
CHAPTER THREE:
RIDING A REVOLUTIONARY WAVE
39
CHAPTER FOUR:
DAYS OF ANGUISH
53
CHAPTER FIVE:
THE MAKING OF AN ICON
69
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