The Death of Che Guevara: Declassified

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No.5

By Peter Kornbluh

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On October 9th, 1967, Ernesto "Che" Guevara was put to
death by Bolivian soldiers, trained, equipped and
guided by U.S. Green Beret and CIA operatives. His
execution remains a historic and controversial event;
and thirty years later, the circumstances of his
guerrilla foray into Bolivia, his capture, killing, and
burial are still the subject of intense public interest
and discussion around the world.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"This leaflet was handed out on yesterday's demo in London by the group "No War But The Class War."

War is good for forging national unity. War helps to both create new
nation states and submerge class and other conflicts in an existing
nation-state. Nationalism always tries to make the dispossesed and
exploited, who make up most of the population, identify with their
exploiters and so perpetuates this miserable society.

War is good for
national liberation rackets who can use a war situation as a way of
bargaining with world powers in conflict with the local ruling powers
and each other.

War is good for polarising arbitrary groups of human
beings into enemy camps, which allows various gangs of rulers to
exploit them more effectively. War is thus a boon for nationalist,
islamist, democratic, fascist, "communist" governments and would-be
governments.

Greetings from the welcome committee, a group that has
been formed for the mobilizations in Quito this
October. We are a group of both Ecuadorians and
foreigners that has come together to help find and
pass on information for those foreigners who have
plans to travel to Quito this October to participate
in the events during the days of the ministerial
summit.

We have created two lists (one in English and
one in Spanish) as well as an email address,
bienvenidoquito by which you can write
us any questions you may have. Anyone with plans to
come down who needs more information or wants updates
can subscribe to the English listserve by writing to
subscribe, and
to the Spanish listserve at
subscribe.

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