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	Bolivia looks to Ché trail to attract more visitors
		Vallegrande, a provincial capital, is where Guevara's lifeless body was taken and put on display several hours after his execution, and it is where his body was secretly buried and then found 30 years later.
		Vallegrande Mayor Alfredo García said town folk had feared that the finding of Guevara's skeleton in 1997 would dry up the trickle of foreign tourists who trekked there.
		Vallegrande residents got their first glimpse of Guevara shortly after his execution, when his corpse arrived at the tiny airport, tied to the skids of a helicopter.
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /che/che-trail.htm (750 words)

	Bolivia
		Vallegrande in west of Dept. Santa Cruz belongs to the Andean highlands.
		Apparently, a few abstract motifs in yellow and red represent the next phase, and finally there are white paintings belonging to the Colonial period, including a human figure holding up a cross, apparently scaring away another anthropomorph pictured in a frog-like fashion.
		SC004, another small cave in Vallegrande, features two magnificent mask-like designs, one of which was chosen as logo of the Bolivian Rock Art Society (SIARB).
	www.bradshawfoundation.com /bolivia/vallegrande.html (172 words)

	mare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Vallegrande is 3.5 Km from the beach of S. Ambrogio.
		The large pebble beach is easily accessible trough the munerous gates along the shore, some of which have surpervised parking nearby.
		Other beaches easily reachable from Vallegrande are: the Lungomare of Cefalu town, a beautiful sandy beach divided between paying Lidos and areas of free bathing – about 7 km distance.
	www.vallegrande.it /mare_ing.htm (107 words)

	Guardian \| Death of a legend
		Richard Gott, then the Guardian's South America correspondent, was in the Bolivian town of Vallegrande only hours after Che's execution, the only person present who had met the guerrilla and could vouch that this was indeed him.
		Brian Moser's rarely shown photographs of Che Guevara were taken in Vallegrande, Bolivia, on October 9 1967, some six hours after the execution of the Cuban-Argentinian guerrilla leader.
		The Bolivian authorities were worried that their claim that this was indeed Guevara might not be believed, since one dead guerrilla, thin and emaciated and with matted hair and beard, looked much like another, and a procession of such corpses had been unloaded in Vallegrande in the previous weeks.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4995618-103680,00.html (1034 words)

	Cuba Travel - Cuba Vacation - Cuba Hotel/Hotels - Cuba tourism information.
		The film was shot between April and May 2004 in Vallegrande, the place where the remains of Che and other guerilla fighters lingered buried between 1967 and 1997, and in La Higuera, where the army executed Guevara on October 9th, 1967.
		The idea of the film was born in 1997, when producers were shooting a historical documentary on the exhumation of the remains of the guerilla fighters that were transported to Cuba that year, amid the opposition of inhabitants in that area in the Bolivian southeast.
		The film was recently released in Vallegrande and in the Bolivian cities of Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz, and before yearend will be exhibited in Cuba and by the beginning of 2006 in Argentina.
	www.cubaxp.com /modules/news/print.php?storyid=2916 (378 words)

	NewStandard: 7/7/97
		But the facial bone structure, teeth and the absence of hands on the skeleton uncovered in Vallegrande, 550 miles southeast of La Paz, have led experts to believe the remains are Guevara's, he said.
		The revolutionaries were flown to Vallegrande, where Guevara and some of his forces were later executed.
		In 1995, retired Bolivian military officers claimed that his remains were buried under the Vallegrande airstrip.
	www.s-t.com /daily/07-97/07-07-97/a05wn026.htm (436 words)

	Che in Bolivia
		The best utopias, those that were designed by the most lucid minds, those that pure men and women died for, still have a place on Earth and can help to change the ways that things are going.
		Vallegrande is located 300 km southwest Santa Cruz.
		Is 2000 meters above the level of the sea, and in October has an average temperature of 20 degrees C during the day and 10 degrees C during the night.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/9051 (599 words)

	companero che .com - the truth about Che Guevara: Search for Che
		Vallegrande, a town in the Bolivian department of Santa Cruz, was the last place where the guerrillas’ bodies had been publicly displayed before they disappeared.
		In January 1996, a number of preliminary excavations in different parts of Vallegrande and the surrounding areas were conducted at different sites but no new findings of skeletal remains were made during this period.
		On the basis of the historical investigation, a survey of the geographical and geological characteristics of the Vallegrande valley was begun at the end of 1996 by a larger Cuban team of specialists.
	www.companeroche.com /index.php?id=101 (1003 words)

	CNN - Bolivia seeks Che Guevara's remains - Dec. 11, 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		VALLEGRANDE, Bolivia (CNN) -- Whether the remains of legendary guerrilla Ernesto "Che" Guevara are buried alongside the airstrip of this remote Bolivian jungle village should soon be known.
		Guevara, Fidel Castro's revolutionary deputy, was killed at Vallegrande in October 1967 after an unsuccessful campaign to ignite revolution among the peasants who still live in the surrounding mountain communities.
		The Bolivian government gave the order to locate Guevara's remains after a retired general connected with his capture and execution said he knew where Guevara was buried.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9512/che_excavation (398 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Che I met was no hero, says his captor
		In Vallegrande, a small, dusty, forgotten town five hours from Santa Cruz, Guevara, who was shot dead nearby, is celebrated as a secular saint.
		"Some people in Vallegrande think Che was a saint and by praying to him he might be able to resolve their problems," explains Erich Blossl, 74, a German immigrant and resident of that town for almost 40 years.
		Young Vallegrande residents are eager extras on the film set and march the town’s warren of streets carrying wooden cut-outs of Browning machine guns and M1 rifles as they pretend to be Captain Prado Salmon and his battalion.
	news.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=941312004 (1392 words)

	The Militant - 12/18/95 -- Bolivian General Reveals Che Guevara's Burial Site
		Twenty-eight years after Ernesto Che Guevara was murdered on orders of the Bolivian government, a retired Bolivian general who was part of the operation has revealed what was done with the body of the guerrilla commander and communist leader.
		Vallegrande is a provincial capital in the mountains of southern Bolivia and is 30 miles from La Higuera, where Guevara and three other members of his guerrilla column were held after they were captured on Oct. 8, 1967.
		His body was flown to Vallegrande and publicly displayed in a hospital through October 10.
	www.themilitant.com /1995/5947/5947_9.html (1500 words)

	Bolivia on the Day of the Death of Che Guevara: Rough Draft of History: 'All Right, Let's Get the Hell Out of Here' ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		I took the road from Vallegrande to Santa Cruz, to visit the camp at La Esperanza, the military base of the US special forces, where some 20 servicemen were lodged in an abandoned sugar mill.
		Such temerity by foreign journalists, for we were the first to arrive in Vallegrande by 24 hours, was ill-received, and the CIA agent, in the company of some Bolivian officers, tried to have us thrown out of the town.
		I wrote of his presence in Vallegrande in an article for the Guardian, but it was another year before any mention appeared in the mainstream US press.
	www.mindfully.org /Reform/2005/Che-Guevara-Gott11aug05.htm (2325 words)

	GRANMA INTERNAtIONAL DIGITAL, CUBA ENGLISH
		Relating his first impressions of Che he says that he is well known today by the inhabitants of Vallegrande and La Higuera for his ideas and his battles on behalf of the poor.
		The young man began to question her on those dramatic days of 1967 and found out that she had kept his socks and boots, a jacket, camera and other belongings of the Argentine-Cuban revolutionary, some of which the soldiers took from her and the others that she later handed over to the Cuban authorities.
		The small Vallegrande hospital room visited by people from the area and other locations, including abroad, is exactly the same today as it was when Susana washed the Comandante’s body.
	www.granma.cu /ingles/2003/junio/lun9/23che.html (1000 words)

	Chasing El Che (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Guevara and fellow communist guerillas were attempting to launch a continent-wide revolution modeled on Guevara's success in Cuba in the late 1950s.
		The army then flew Guevara's body, lashed to the skid of a helicopter, to Vallegrande where it was displayed in a hospital laundry for two days.
		Flowers sit next to a marker for Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Vallegrande where the body of the executed revolutionary lay buried with six fellow guerillas for 30 years.
	www.kevinmoloney.com /recent/chasing/che1.html (302 words)

	Cuba News / The Miami Herald - CubaNet News - Noticias de Cuba / Cuba News
		Today his handsome mug appears on the walls of homes and in market stalls in remote La Higuera, where he died, and in Vallegrande, where he was secretly buried.
		At Vallegrande's only art cafe, paintings of Guevara on horseback stare out at patrons.
		Hamburgers are served beneath a painting depicting his eerie death stare and shirtless corpse.
	www.cubanet.org /CNews/y04/ago04/18e3.htm (859 words)

	LikeTelevision Blog: Che Guevara Executed Oct. 1967
		On Oct. 8, 1967 - it was reported that Che Guevara had been fatally wounded in battle, fighting with peasant revolutionaries trying to take control of Bolivia.
		Many years later in July 1997, Che Guevara's body was found in in a mass grave near Vallegrande and reburied in Santa Clara, Cuba.
		Vallegrande has become a leading merchant of Che Guevara posters, t-shirts, etc. etc....
	www.liketelevision.com /blog/archives/000074.html (235 words)

	Independent, The (London): The last journey of Che Guevara
		I met Villoldo in Vallegrande on the day that Guevara was executed at the village of La Higuera, Monday 9 October, 1967.
		Four hours after the Cuban guerrilla leader was executed, his cadaver was brought to Vallegrande by helicopter and Villoldo immediately took charge of the proceedings.
		A few hours after the autopsy, early on the morning of Wednesday 11 October, according to the evidence of the CIA agent interviewed by Jorge Castaneda, he was buried.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19970709/ai_n14127306 (557 words)

	Che Guevara's female guerrilla found in Bolivia / Reuters - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
		The Cuban team found the bones of Hayde Tamara Bunke Bider, alias "Tania", in the town of Vallegrande, 480 miles (770 km) southeast of the capital La Paz and about two-thirds of a mile (1 km) away from where the same team unearthed the bones of the legendary leftist guerrilla Guevara in July 1997.
		Tania -- an Argentine-like Guevara -- was part of a column that was ambushed in the region of Vado del Yeso, south of Vallegrande, on Aug. 31, 1967.
		It was transported to Vallegrande and buried two days later.
	www.cubanet.org /CNews/y98/sep98/22e5.htm (342 words)

	The Man Who Buried Che (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Meanwhile, Vallegrande municipal officials declared Che's remains a ``national patrimony'' and slapped a moratorium on digging until mid-June.
		What the Cubans had found were seven bodies, in two groups of three and four, separated by 2 1/2 feet, buried in a pit wedged between Vallegrande's old dirt airstrip to the north and the nearby cemetery to the south.
		Both Villoldo and the bulldozer driver, who still lives in Vallegrande and was interviewed by Inchaurregui, recall that it began to rain toward the end of the burial.
	www.fiu.edu /~fcf/cheremains111897.html (5288 words)

	Che Guevara 4.1
		General Vargas, who in 1967 was a 30-year-old officer based in Vallegrande with Bolivia's Eighth Army Division, said he was one of only three witnesses to Guevara's burial, and he provided the most detailed account to date of the episode.
		He was held overnight in a mud-floor schoolhouse in the hamlet of La Higuera, about 30 miles from Vallegrande, and the next day, on the orders of Bolivia's President, Gen.
		You are going to kill a man." Guevara's bullet-riddled body was flown to Vallegrande, and throughout that afternoon and the next day, Oct. 10, it lay on public display in a hospital laundry house.
	www.nrc.nl /W2/Lab/HAL8/nyt.html (1253 words)

	When Che Became A Market God By V.B.Rawat
		His body was said to be buried at a place with three other prisoners at the air force base in Vallegrande which were found 30 years later.
		Now, there is an effort by the culture ministry of Bolivia to give it a shape though in the name of developing the Che Memorial, they have just a sign board about the historicity of the place and nothing to offer those who come from different part of the world and cry in this place.
		Even the hospital at Vallegrande where Che’s body was brought for postmortem is a ‘tourist’ spot.
	www.countercurrents.org /rawat270405.htm (2500 words)

	Looking for Mr. Guevara Diary Entries
		When we arrived in Vallegrande at 2 pm, things were indeed slow.
		Vallegrande and La Higuera are located in the midst of a vast dust bowl.
		The drunken organizers were attempting to sell seats to Vallegrande to pay for beer.
	www.polaris.nova.edu /~brodman/dentry02.html (14779 words)

	Peace Corps Online \| August 16, 2004: Headlines: COS - Bolivia: Revolution: Cuba: Latin American Issues: Kansas City ...
		August 16, 2004: Headlines: COS - Bolivia: Revolution: Cuba: Latin American Issues: Kansas City Star: Emily George visited Vallegrande where Che Guevara was captured in 1967 after finishing a Peace Corps stint in Bolivia.
		Peace Corps Online: Directory: Bolivia: The Peace Corps in Bolivia: August 16, 2004: Headlines: COS - Bolivia: Revolution: Cuba: Latin American Issues: Kansas City Star: Emily George visited Vallegrande where Che Guevara was captured in 1967 after finishing a Peace Corps stint in Bolivia.
		Emily George visited Vallegrande where Che Guevara was captured in 1967 after finishing a Peace Corps stint in Bolivia.
	peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/467/2023005.html (1417 words)

	rutadelche_b.jpg
		Rene Cadima, 85, the only survivor among three local photographers who made pictures of the body of Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Vallegrande, Bolivia, holds a copy of one of his images Sunday, Nov. 14, 2004, Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
		Guevara was captured by the Bolivian army in 1967 in a nearby valley and executed in La Higuera days later.
		The army then flew Guevara's body, lashed to the skid of a helicopter, to Vallegrande where it was displayed in a hospital laundry for tow days.
	www.kevinmoloney.com /stock/source/rutadelche_b.html (317 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Che Guevara legacy lives on in Bolivia
		Locals are bracing themselves for an invasion of Che pilgrims with the opening of the new Che Guevara Trail through the area on 8 October this year.
		Instead of liberating the rural underclass, however, he was betrayed and, after being wounded in a gun battle, he was captured and held prisoner in the schoolhouse in La Higuera.
		The new Che Guevara trail has been overseen by Care Bolivia, the local branch of the international NGO Care International, and has a remit to foster increased tourism based around the draw of the Che legend.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3594994.stm (768 words)

	Discussing palm trees worldwide: Parajubaea Torallyi.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The have a thriving business in Samipati (near Vallegrande with a small gringo population of tourist guides who conduct tours of the Amboro) where you can buy Che Souveniers.
		Che is supposed to be buried under the airport in Vallegrande per the local legend there.
		It was very usefull your suggestions for go to Vallegrande and see the sunkhas.- People there still remember about you and Mike.- "Two very tall gringos mans looking for a palm and get their nuts" toldme some people there.-
	www.palms.org /cgi-bin/ikon/static/parajubaea-torallyi_topic1-4371.html (986 words)

	The Life and Death of Che Guevara - Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In Vallegrande, FTlix Rodrfguez receives the message over the radio: "Papþ cansado," which means "Dad is tired." Papa is the code for foreigner, implying Che.
		Che's body is flown to Vallegrande by helicopter and later fingerprinted and embalmed.
		OCTOBER 15, 1967: Bolivian President Barrientos claims that Che's ashes are buried in a hidden place somewhere in the Vallegrande region.
	reddpr.tripod.com /che/death.htm (4080 words)

	INGLES GRANMA INTERNACIONAL DIGITAL, CUBA
		Mostly students, these young people reached La Higuera from Vallegrande, over some 40 kilometers of winding roads edged by abysses, where they initiated a Meeting Camp in honor of the 35th anniversary of Che’s final combat on October 8.
		Hassan Pérez, president of the Federation of University Students of Cuba, traveled to the Bolivian capital to promote the Latin American and Caribbean Students Congress, scheduled for the end of the year in Mexico.
		In Bolivia, the residents of Vallegrande, the town where the remains of Che were found 30 years after his death, are currently enlarging the monument constructed by the national authorities after that finding.
	www.granma.cu /ingles/octubre02/mar8/41memor-i.html (580 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Americas \| Che Guevara legacy lives on in Bolivia
		The next day, 9 October, 1967, he was executed by Bolivian troops and his body taken to a hospital in nearby Vallegrande, where his corpse was paraded before the world's media.
		His clothes were rags and his body filthy," remembers Susanna Ocinaga, who was the duty nurse on the day his body was brought to Vallegrande.
		Susanna Ocinaga is also concerned: "Because his blood is on Vallegrande soil," she says, "we are now forever linked with the name of Che."
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/3594994.stm (768 words)

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