When the last of the nine shots was fired at Ernesto Che Guevara in that ramshackle building, his executioner thought that he had silenced the romantic revolutionary once and for all. But what happened was the opposite, obviously to the dismay of the Bolivian government and the CIA, which masterminded the manhunt. Instead of being killed, as it were, Che was immortalised and turned into a timeless icon, thanks to a snap shot that was taken by Alberto Korda in 1960. This article looks at this resilient revolutionary from the perspective of a 21st century citizen.
