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Mario Teran
Mario Teran was the Bolivian Army sergeant who executed revolutionary Che Guevara as a young man on October 9, 1967. He had drawn a short straw after arguments over who would kill Guevara broke out among the soldiers.
In 2006, Teran was treated for cataracts by Cuban physicians in the Cuba-Venezuela Operacion Milagro (Operation Miracle) program, which restored his sight.
This was first revealed when Teran's son wrote a letter to the Santa Cruz de la Sierra newspaper El Deber thanking the Cuban doctors. In 2007 it gained wider attention when Granma (the official newspaper of the Communist Party of ...
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