Che Guevara: Bolivian General Gary Prado Salmón who captured revolutionary dies

The Bolivian wide who captured the Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara and became a nationalist leader has died aged 84.

In 1967 Gary Prado Salmón led a subject cognition successful Bolivia, backed by US concealed work agents, that defeated a communist insurrection organised by Che Guevara.

At the clip Bolivia had a right-wing subject government.

An service serviceman executed Argentina-born Guevara a time aft his arrest.

The Cold War betwixt the US and Soviet Union was astatine its tallness and Washington was highly acrophobic astir communist power successful Latin America, including Che Guevara's activities.

He had near Cuba aft the triumph of the 1959 gyration there, to pb guerrilla movements successful different countries. He was a cardinal state of Cuban communist person Fidel Castro and became a leader for communists worldwide.

Gen Prado's lad described his begetter arsenic "an bonzer person", who near "a bequest of love, integrity and courage".

The Bolivian serviceman who changeable and killed Che Guevara was Mario Terán, who died past year.

After ambushing Guevara's guerrilla radical Gen Prado was made a nationalist leader for having defended the Bolivian subject regime.

He had led US-trained Bolivian Rangers successful a distant jungle portion wherever Che Guevara's group, primitively numbering astir 120, had declined to conscionable 22.

Since 1981 Gen Prado had been a wheelchair user, aft a slug fired accidentally deed him successful the spine. He wrote a publication astir his 1967 triumph, called How I Captured Che.

According to his son, "for him capturing Che was not the astir important happening helium did successful his beingness - rather, it was to lend to making the equipped forces a antiauthoritarian instauration that would respect the constitution and laws".

Che Guevara was executed successful the Bolivian colony of La Higuera, 830km (516 miles) southbound of La Paz, and his assemblage was buried successful a concealed location. In 1997 his remains were discovered, exhumed and returned to Cuba, wherever helium was reburied.