New book on killing che

[dennisw]

Looks like a pretty interesting book.


http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2013/07...t-for-che.html

"Hunting Che: How a U.S. Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World's Most Famous Revolutionary," by Mitch Weiss and Kevin Maurer; Berkley

(Excerpt) Icon of Cuba's revolution. Symbol of youthful rebellion. The face on trendy T-shirts. Those are some of the public perceptions of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the Argentine doctor who helped Fidel Castro topple Fulgencio Batista on New Year's Day of 1959 and execute hundreds of Cubans at the La Cabana prison in Havana.

But he looked like a hobo when he was captured and executed in Bolivia in 1967, his wild hair and beard matted with dirt and wearing a shirt with no buttons, at the end of a long hunt by U.S.-trained Bolivian troops and Cuban-born CIA agents.

That hunt is described in the new book by two journalists, Pulitzer Prize-winner Mitch Weiss and The New York Times' Kevin Maurer, co-author of "No Easy Day," a bestseller about the Navy Seal mission that killed Osama Bin Laden.

Even those who have read the many previous works on Guevara will find new material in Hunting Che. There's the tale of the 16 U.S. Green Berets who trained the 640-man Second Ranger Battalion of the Bolivian army specifically to track and battle Guevara and his guerrillas, a mixture of veteran Cuban fighters and Bolivian supporters. There's the role of the U.S. ambassador in La Paz, Douglas Henderson, who allegedly downplayed the communist threat to Bolivia and seemed to throw roadblocks in front of the Green Berets' efforts.