Hunting Che, Mitch Weiss
Hunting Che, Mitch Weiss
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Hunting Che
How a U.S. Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World's Most Famous Revolutionary

Author: Mitch Weiss, Kevin Maurer

Narrator: Robertson Dean

Unabridged: 7 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/02/2013


Synopsis

By the mid-1960s, Guevera had become famous for his outspoken criticism of the United States and his support for armed Communist insurgencies. He had been one of the architects of the Cuban Revolution, and was attempting to repeat his success throughout Latin America. His guerrilla tactics and talent for proselytizing made him a threat to American foreign policy—and when he turned his attention to Bolivia in 1967, the Pentagon made a decision: Che had to be eliminated.

Major Ralph "Pappy" Shelton was called upon to lead the mission to train the Bolivians. With a hand-picked team of specialists, his first task was to transform a ragtag group of peasants into a trained fighting force who could also gather intelligence. Gary Prado, a Bolivian officer, volunteered to join the newly formed Bolivian Rangers. Joined by Felix Rodriguez, a Cuban exile working for the CIA, the Americans and Bolivians searched for Che. The size of Che's group and when they would strike were unknowns, and the stakes were high. If Bolivia fell, it would validate Che's theories and throw South America into turmoil.

Hunting Che follows the exploits of Major Shelton, Felix Rodriguez, and Gary Prado—the Bolivian Ranger commander who ultimately captured him. The story begins with Che's arrival in Bolivia and follows the hunt to the dramatic confrontation and capture of the iconic leader in the southeastern village of La Higuera. With the White House and the Pentagon secretly monitoring every move, Shelton and his team changed history, and prevented a catastrophic threat from taking root in the West.

About Mitch Weiss

Mitch Weiss is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist for the Associated Press. He currently works for the AP on investigative projects, and an investigative series he wrote about corrupt real estate appraisers won several national awards in 2009. He also was part of a team of AP reporters who won a George Polk Award in 2010 for their coverage of the British Petroleum oil-spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Mitch has also coauthored several nonfiction books, including No Way Out and Tiger Force.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sajith

The handsome but grim face of the revolutionary wearing a beret is the most popular personal icon in the world. Many of the people who wear this badge on their tee-shirts don’t know the man or what he fought for – and died for. Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara was an Argentine doctor who abandoned the medical......more

Goodreads review by Bobby

Begins with the Green Berets training Bolivian troops to hunt and track Che and his crew. Evolves into the experiences of the Bolivians who captured, detained, and finally liquidated the communist.......more

"I am Che Guevara and I have failed" This reading is focused on those historical figures that have been forgotten! The Special Forces Soldiers, the village and those rangers trained by said Green Berets. In the end not much is said of Che and as in past history one can really only believe that there......more