Fifty-six years ago today, German communist guerrilla Tamara Bunke, also known by her nom de guerre Tania, was shot dead by CIA-backed Bolivian military forces on the banks of the Río Grande while en route to meet up with Che Guevara's revolutionary troops.
She began her career as a Spanish translator in East Germany, where she met several Latin American revolutionaries, including Che Guevara. Later, she traveled to Latin America and participated in Cuban-led operations aimed at liberating the region from U.S. imperialism.
In Bolivia, she initially worked as a spy in the capital before joining Che Guevara's revolutionary guerrilla army. At the age of 29, she was killed in an ambush by the CIA-backed Bolivian army on August 31, 1967, while crossing a river with eight of her comrades-in-arms. After her death, Fidel Castro posthumously declared her a heroine of the Cuban Revolution.
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