General Gary Prado Salmn, retired, had been the commander of the unit that had captured Guevara. He confirmed General Vargas statement and added that the guerrilla fighters had been burned, before dumping their bodies into a mass grave, dug by a bulldozer, at the end of the Vallegrande airstrip. He explained that the body of Che Guevara had been buried in a separate gravesite under the runway. The morning after the burials, Che Guevaras younger brother, Juan Martin Guevara, arrived in Vallegrande, hoping to see his brothers remains. Upon asking, he was told by the police that it was too late. Talking to some of the army officers, he was told lies or perhaps just differing accounts of the burial, confusing matters even more. The few peasants that were involved and knew what had happened were mysteriously unavailable. Having reached a dead end, he left for Buenos Aires not knowing much more than when he arrived.
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