en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Ter%C3%A1n
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At around 11:30 a.m. 9 October, Terán walked into the schoolhouse where Guevara was held prisoner and killed him with several shots from his M2 Carbine.
The time is wrong. Declassified U.S. records and the National Security Archive place Guevara’s execution at about 1:15 p.m. on October 9, 1967, not around 11:30 a.m.
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This sentence gives the wrong time for Guevara’s execution.
A declassified October 13, 1967 memorandum reproduced by the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Historian says the order to kill Guevara arrived from La Paz at 11:50 a.m., and that Guevara was then "executed with a burst of shots at 1:15 p.m." That alone rules out an execution at about 11:30 a.m., because the execution order had not even arrived yet.
The National Security Archive’s document collection on the episode likewise states that Guevara "was executed" at 1:15 p.m. on October 9, 1967.
So the article’s 11:30 a.m. time is contradicted by the documentary record by roughly 1 hour and 45 minutes.
2 sources
- Historical Documents - Office of the Historian
When the order came at 11:50 a.m. from La Paz to kill Guevara ... Guevara was executed with a burst of shots at 1:15 p.m.
- Che Guevara and the CIA in the Mountains of Bolivia | National Security Archive
Washington, DC, October 9, 2020 - Fifty-three years ago, at 1:15 p.m. on October 9, 1967, Argentine-born revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara was executed in the hills of Bolivia...
Terán died at Military Social Security Corporation hospital in La Paz, on 10 March 2022, at the age of 79.
The death location is incorrect. Contemporary reports say Terán died in the Cossmil military hospital in Santa Cruz, not in La Paz.
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The location given here does not match contemporaneous reporting on Terán’s death.
A March 10, 2022 EFE report carried by SWI swissinfo says Terán died "in a hospital in the eastern region of Santa Cruz" and specifically that he had been hospitalized in the Corporación del Seguro Social Militar (Cossmil) in Santa Cruz.
A same-day MercoPress report likewise says he died in the city of Santa Cruz and quotes a family pastor saying he passed away in "Cossmil Santa Cruz."
So the claim that he died at the Military Social Security Corporation hospital in La Paz is contradicted by multiple reports placing his death in Santa Cruz.
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- Fallece en Bolivia el militar que ejecutó a Ernesto "Che" Guevara - SWI swissinfo.ch
El militar retirado Gary Prado Salmón ... confirmó a Efe que Terán falleció ... tras estar internado durante varios días en el hospital de la Corporación del Seguro Social Militar (Cossmil) en Santa Cruz.
- Man who killed Che dies aged 80 - MercoPress
Terán died Thursday at 7.15 am local time in the city of Santa Cruz... 'Today at 07:15 a.m., Bolivian time, Senior Warrant Officer Mario Terán Salazar passed away in Cossmil Santa Cruz.'