11-18-2023, 12:10 AM
A Bolivian sergeant
won the lottery to murder
the captive Che Guevara.
Che was wounded,
bound hand and foot,
locked inside a schoolhouse.
His last words to his executioner:
“Shoot, coward. You are only
going to kill a man.”
The Bolivian officers
wanted to cut off Che’s head
as proof of their victory,
but the CIA man, fearing
that would seem barbaric,
convinced them to merely
cut off his hands.
He was buried in a secret grave
along with six fellow guerillas.
For twenty years
the Bolivian sergeant,
convinced he was on a Cuban hit list,
lived in hiding, wearing disguises,
and only spoke of his role
for money. The lottery he won
gained him little but fear, while the officers
wrote books and gained promotions.
In 2007, Cuban doctors
operated on his eyes for free,
part of Operacion Milagro;
he was almost blind,
his sight was restored
and the lottery finally paid off.
won the lottery to murder
the captive Che Guevara.
Che was wounded,
bound hand and foot,
locked inside a schoolhouse.
His last words to his executioner:
“Shoot, coward. You are only
going to kill a man.”
The Bolivian officers
wanted to cut off Che’s head
as proof of their victory,
but the CIA man, fearing
that would seem barbaric,
convinced them to merely
cut off his hands.
He was buried in a secret grave
along with six fellow guerillas.
For twenty years
the Bolivian sergeant,
convinced he was on a Cuban hit list,
lived in hiding, wearing disguises,
and only spoke of his role
for money. The lottery he won
gained him little but fear, while the officers
wrote books and gained promotions.
In 2007, Cuban doctors
operated on his eyes for free,
part of Operacion Milagro;
he was almost blind,
his sight was restored
and the lottery finally paid off.