2023-05-07 14:43:40
The Bolivian general died Gary Meadow Salmon, who captured the Argentine revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara in 1967. Prado Salmón was in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and was 84 years old, his son, Gary Prado Araúz, announced on his Facebook account.
General Prado Salmón led a patrol in southwestern Bolivia on October 8, 1967 that ended with the capture of “Che” Guevara, who was wounded at the time. One day later, the Bolivian Army complied with the order to run it.
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Gary Prado Araúz posted on Facebook: “The Lord has just called my father Gral Div SP Gary Augusto Prado Salmón to his Kingdom, he left accompanied by his wife and children. He leaves us a legacy of love, honesty and mettle. He was an extraordinary person”.
The son of Gary Prado Salmón confirmed the death of his father (Photo: capture: Facebook @gary.prado.56).
Prado Salmón suffered health complications since mid-April and was hospitalized. His son thanked in his message all the people who supported his family “in this time of his agony.”
In 1967 the Bolivian Congress appointed National hero to Prado Salmón for defending the military government of that country, led by the coup general Rene Barrientos, considered a “foreign invasion subversive”.
In 1981 an accidental shot hit Prado Salmón’s spine and left him in Wheelchair, while in 1988 he retired from the military career.
General Prado was a university professor, ambassador and adviser of former Bolivian President Jaime Paz Zamora (1989-1993), among other functions.
In recent times, the retired military man dedicated himself mainly to writing and transmitting his ideas in works such as “La Guerrilla Immolada”, where he supported the thesis that the Communist Party of Cuba “he ordered to die” to Che Guevara to Bolivia because I didn’t tolerate it.
The son of Gary Prado Salmón: “For him, the capture of ‘Che’ was not the most important thing he did in his life”
Prado Salmón’s son said that for his father “the capture of ‘Che’ it was not the most important thing what he did in his life, but to contribute to making the Armed Forces a democratic institution, respectful of the Constitution and the laws”.
Prado Araúz said that his father “experienced prison, exile (and) clandestinity, fighting for his democratic principles” and that he even faced what he called a “shameful trial” when he had to serve eleven years in house arrest for an accusation of terrorism during the Government of Evo Morales (2006-2019).
It was in reference to April 16, 2009, when a police commando carried out an operation in a hotel in Santa Cruz that ended with three foreigners dead and two arrested, accused of being part of a terrorist cell that supposedly wanted the secession of the Santa Cruz region. and attack Morales.
Prado Araúz told in statements to the agency EFE that his father “left an unfinished memoir” that lacks “the last chapter” that he was supposed to recount what he considered was an “unfair trial” that closed in 2020 with the acquittal of 12 defendants.
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