Mario Terán was a soldier who killed the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in October 1967. The Ernesto Che Guevara executioner has died at the age of 80 in a Hospital in the capital La Paz, Bolivia.
Mario Terán Salazar was a soldier accused of killing Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara on October 9, 1967.
The retired noncommissioned officer lived in Santa Cruz and was hospitalized at the Military Social Security Corporation.
After orders to execute the already injured Guevara, then 39, Terán was chosen to kill him.
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Mario Terán died in a hospital at 80 in La Paz due to a long illness.
Senior Petty Officer Mario Terán died at Cossmil Santa Cruz on March 10 at 07:15 Bolivian time.
He was survived by his wife, sons, and daughters in Bolivia.
In 1967, the French journalist Michele Ray took a photograph of him that became famous worldwide.
Terán took part in the operation to capture ‘Che,’ according to the Military Historical Research Institute of Bolivia.
Gary Prado Salmón, the retired general who directed the operation to arrest ‘Che’ Guevara, verified Terán’s death.
Terán had been “dispossessed” the day before by the medical staff who visited him.
Mario was a strong man who graduated from the Sergeants School in 1961.
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Mario Terán was married to his wife Julia Peralta in 1965. He had two sons and four daughters from his only marriage.
Terán spent the rest of his life in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia’s largest city.
Mario lived under a false name and identity after the killing of Che Guevera.
Several media sites stated in 2007 that Terán had obtained a free cataract removal operation from Cuban doctors under a fictitious name as part of Operación Milagro.
One of Terán’s sons requested that a notice thanking the doctors be published in El Deber, a local Santa Cruz newspaper.
Terán’s eye procedure was only made public a week before Guevara’s death, on the 40th anniversary.
Terán had been “virtually blind” before the treatment and that it had cured him of his blindness, according to Cuban Newspapers.
Terán disputed these claims in a 2014 interview with the Spanish newspaper El Mundo.
Even though he had cataracts removed by Cuban doctors, he claimed he had never been blind.
Terán was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia, on April 9, 1941, to Vicente Terán and Candelaria Salazar.
When he was born, his father, a trader, was 46 years old, and his mother was 45. Terán’s early life is little known beyond this.