La Higuera is a very small village in Bolivia, located 60 km from Vallegrande. It was not easy to get here. The bumpy and narrow mountain roads seemed to go on forever, and the taxi rattled for three hours.
There was a clear reason why I came to this idyllic place. Most people may not be able to imagine it, but this is exactly where Che Guevara met his end. It wasn’t as peaceful and quiet as one might expect. Some gunshots shattered the tranquility of the mountain valley. Ardent revolutionaries, full of hope, lost their lives one by one. Then, finally, a Bolivian soldier shot Che through the heart.
On October 9, 1967, he ended his 39 years as a revolutionary. I think he must have felt deeply disappointed, as he died in the midst of his journey. But at the same time, I believe his life might have been satisfying, because his ideas were passed down to the next generation.
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