Che Guevara's brother opens up 50 years after the revolutionary icon's death.


Ernesto Che Guevara's brother has said he wants to people to remember his late sibling's "human face' and "pull him down off his pedestal'. In his memoir, written 50 years after the death of the Marxist guerilla leader, Che's youngest brother, Juan Martin Guevara, says he began as "an ordinary person' and would have "hated being turned into an idol'.

On 9 October 1967, the hero of the Cuban Revolution was captured and executed by Bolivian forces. His family learned the news from front pages of newspapers and decided not to say anything at the time.  Read more


Image: Che Guevara with Fidel Castro.