1997
  
In 1995-6, following General Mario Vargas Salinas’s revelations, four skeletons, believed to be those of Marcos, Pablo, Chapaco and Eustaquio, were uncovered in shallow graves outside Vallegrande. As of early 1997, however, only Eustaquio’s (Lucio Edilberto Galván, Peruvian) had been positively identified. Elsewhere in Bolivia, the remains of Carlos Coello ("Tuma”), were also found, identified and returned to Cuba for burial.
“Che Guevara, A Revolutionary Life” - Jon Lee Anderson, Grove Press.
July 3 - Forty days after the excavations are reinitiated in Vallegrande, a team of Cuban, Argentine and Bolivian forensic experts finds six skeletons. Among them are bones with apparent traces of formaldehyde, making experts think they could belong to Guevara.
Carlos A. Quiroga, La Paz - Reuters
July 12 - The remains of Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara are identified in Bolivia. Also the remains of Alberto Fernández Montes de Oca, René Martínez Tamayo, Orlando Pantoja Tamayo (Cubans), Aniceto Reinaga, Simón Cuba (Bolivian) and Juan Pablo Chang (Peruvian) are positively identified.
Granma International - Cuba.
October 15 - The remains of “Tania,” whose real name was Haydee Tamara Bunke Bider, were uncovered in September in the remote Bolivian town of Vallegrande, 480 miles (770 km) southeast of the capital La Paz. They are due to be formally buried later this month at a mausoleum in the central Cuban city of Santa Clara, built last year to house the remains of Guevara and those who joined his abortive bid to foment revolution in the Andean nation. Together with the female guerrilla, the remains of four Bolivians in Guevara's band Mario Gutierrez, Aniceto Reinaga, Jaime Arana and Francisco Huanca were also flown in from La Paz.
J. Clancy, Havana - Reuters
October 17 - In a ceremony attended by Fidel Castro and thousands of Cubans, Che Guevara is laid to rest in Santa Clara, Cuba.
Frances Kerry, Havana - Reuters
Since October 17, 1997 the remains of Che Guevara and his comrades in the Bolivian guerrilla struggle rest inside the Memorial Monument Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara in the city of Santa Clara, Cuba. Since 1998, this Memorial receives 150,000 visitors per year. Guevara was buried in the city where he once commanded the decisive 1958 battle of Santa Clara which resulted in the end of the Fulgencio Batista government.
Granma International - Cuba.
 

 

PROJECT FOR THE DAY YOU'LL LOVE ME
Mural Text, Leandro Katz, 1995-97

  

 
Chronological investigation # 4 prepared with the assistance of
Camilo Bocángel Ibañez - La Paz
Caterina Borelli - París/New York
Fremiot Rafael Bravo - Santa Cruz
Elizabeth Guillet - New York
Angel López - México/New York
Philipp Muschg - Geneva
Sebastián Novacovsky, Sandra Comisso - Buenos Aires
Ulla Zwicker - Hamburgh/ New York
  
 

 

Che Guevara in Bolivia: A Chronology has been shown in four accumulative versions of approximately 50 mural plates:

#1 –– El Museo del Barrio, New York. Julia P. Herzberg, curator, 1995-6 (bilingual)
#2 –– VI Havana Biennial, Llilian Llanes, curadora, with Ibis Hernández Abascal and Margarita Sánchez, 1997
#3 –– The Chicago Art Institute. Rachel Weiss, curator, 1998. (bilingual)
#4 –– Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMBA). Laura Buccellato, curator, 2003

  
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