In the numerous testimony about those difficult hours of Commander Ernesto Guevara, wounded and imprisoned in the humble school of La Higuera in Bolivia, his dialogue with a young soldier who seemed to treat him with admirable respect is recurring.

The author of the book Ñancahuazú: the guerrilla of Che in Bolivia, the journalist José Luis Alcázar, who reported on the events from the ranks of the army, recalled Che's conversation with one of those boys who guarded him, who would have started with the Question: "What is Cuba like?"

Cuban researcher, analyst and writer Ernesto Limia Díaz, said that already in the evening hours of Sunday, October 8, 1967, it seems that the Heroic Guerrilla man considered the possibility of escaping with the collaboration of a humble soldier named Mario Eduardo Huerta, Radio Rebelde publishes

Well-known author of numerous studies on the heroic saga of Che, the Cuban historian and essayist Ernesto Limia Díaz said that, after the alleged murder, CIA agent Felix Rodriguez Mendigutia transmitted the following message to Langley: “Guevara was executed with a blast of shots at 13:15 on October 9 ”.

Limia Díaz said that at six o'clock on the 8th, from the home of the US ambassador to La Paz, the de facto president of Bolivia, René Barrientos Ortuño, consulted the United States government on what to do with Che prisoner. "Two hours later," he said, "Washington's response came to La Paz: Che must be killed."

The Cuban researcher, analyst and writer, described as fallacious the widespread version of Yankee authorities taken by surprise at the alleged military decision of the Altiplano to assassinate Che, without even consulting them. "It is even known," he said, "that on October 9, the guard officer in Langley claimed for the fingerprints of the body to confirm that the man killed in La Higuera was really Che."

Ernesto Limia Díaz recalled that, transferred by helicopter to Vallegrande, the body of the Heroic Guerrilla was received at the hospital in that city in the southeast of Bolivia by another CIA agent, Gustavo Villoldo, former honorary captain of the dictator Fulgencio Zaldívar police.

Four guerrillas died in the fight of the Quebrada del Yuro: the Bolivian Aniceto Reynaga and the Cubans René Martínez Tamayo, Orlando Pantoja and Alberto Fernández Montes de Oca. Three were prisoners and killed the next day: Che, the Peruvian Juan Pablo Chang Navarro and the Bolivian Simeón Cuba.

Ten fighters in two groups managed to break the fence, one of four that was beaten days later, and another of six that would deliver in the future a true epic.

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