Execution Still Haunts Village, 50 Years After Che Guevara’s Death<br />Ms. Rosales, the storekeeper who gave Guevara the bowl of soup after his capture, recalled being stunned one day in La Higuera, shortly before Guevara<br />was killed, when one of his guerrillas, Roberto Peredo, known as "Coco," walked into the building where she was working and asked to use the phone.<br />" said Ms. Rosales. that They told us the guerrillas hit the men<br />and raped their wives, took things, and for that reason, no one waited for them to come,<br />"They placed him here, they placed him over there —<br />but no one knew where he was." Loyola Guzmán, a Communist youth leader in La Paz, Bolivia’s capital, would be one of the first to learn.<br />9, 2017<br />LA HIGUERA, Bolivia — Irma Rosales, tired after decades of tending her tiny store, sat back one morning with a box full of photos<br />and remembered the stranger who was shot in the local schoolhouse 50 years ago.<br />In La Higuera after the killing, Ms. Rosales said she remembers seeing Ms. Cortés approaching the schoolhouse to clean up the blood in the classroom.<br />Later that day, Mr. Salazar, the reporter, was back in La Paz covering the trial<br />of another guerrilla, when word reached him of the execution in La Higuera.<br />"He looked at first just like a regular person, like a homeless man even." Ms. Guzmán, Guevara’s<br />fellow guerrilla, had already been taken into custody by the time he was captured.
