英语听力：切格瓦拉的故事 - 17

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Tania was the one who searched for everything before starting in battle, from clothes, shoes, food, ammo and everything. She quickly mobilized and got everything. She reached the highest levels of the Bolivian government.

 

But on one trip to the jungles, her cover’s blown. Tania is forced to stay with the guerillas, but for some, the conditions are too difficult.

 

The first information is gained from the settlers, but that confirm the information about foreigners in the region, and increasing tensions of creating in guerilla force

 

The army sends a patrol of 40 men into the area.

 

And that the patrol was ambushed¹ by the guerilla, and on the 10th of April, we had another two ambushes², two patrols were ambushed again by the guerillas.

 

Che decides to split the group in two. A rebel leader named Watkin (?) will take the rearguard while Che joins the vanguard. He instructs Régis Debray and Ciro Bustos to try to get a message out to Fidel Castro. And in their attempt to do so, they are captured and taken prisoner by Bolivian armed forces. Sergeant³ Miguel Aroyo interrogates⁴ them.

 

Bustos practically spoke⁵ voluntarily because he was very worried. We gave him food and he talked. Bustos drew images of the Cuban guerillas without naming them. And that’s when they are able to see Guevara’s profile with the beard and his pipe.

 

Régis Debray confirms Che’s identity.

 

When he re-surfaced, in Bolivian 1967, you see the CIA intelligence reports, we say, well, I guess we all are wrong in thinking that he might have been dead in these last several years because it appears he is alive and well and promoting revolution in the jungles of Bolivia.

 

The CIA sends a couple of agents to Bolivia in June 1967. One of them is Felix Rodriguez, the man who at age 18 had trained for the Bay of Pigs and a volunteer to assassinate⁶ Fidel Castro and Che.

 

In Bolivia, we are almost sure that he was trying to promote the guerilla in the area.

 

With evidence of Che trying to start a guerilla war in his country, Bolivian president Barrientos starts to a propaganda campaign against him.

 

They would say that if we went out, we would be mugged and raped⁷ by guerilla fighters. That’s what would be rumored⁸

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With Che Guevara back on the radar⁹, America begins to gear up to help the Bolivians.

 

It’s absolutely clear that the CIA made this No.1 priority in the summer of 1967, London Johnson was monitoring day by day the progress that was being made in tracking down and eliminating the great revolutionary Che Guevara.

 

A legacy¹⁰ of Kennedy’s presidency¹¹ is the creation of an elite¹² counter-insurgency group known as the ‘Green Berets’. They’re deployed¹³ to Bolivia.

 

The mission was to train from scratch a Bolivian ranger¹⁴ battalion¹⁵, specifically train them tactics to go after Che Guevara and his guerillas.

 

800 Bolivian soldiers are selected and trained in a camp called La Esperanza (it means "the hope").

 

We were like kids in a toy store, practicing with real war ammunitions, particularly machine guns, rifles, hand grenades, rockets.

 

They were willing students. They were enthusiastic. They turned out to be good soldiers.

 

As things heat up in Bolivia, Che decides it’s time to leave, but not with all of his comrades. It’s been four months since Che’s column had seen the real guard. They had stayed behind a base camp with the sick, including Tania. She was physically¹⁶ in a poor body shape. She got a uterus cancer that was eating her and there was a report from the guerilla, she was delaying the movement of the guerilla because she could hardly work.

 

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