“I know you’ve come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.” Terán hesitated, then pointed his semiautomatic rifle and pulled the trigger, hitting Che in the arms and legs. As Che writhed on the ground, biting one of his wrists in an effort to avoid crying out, Terán fired another burst. The fatal bullet entered Che’s thorax, filling his lungs with blood. On October 9, 1967, at the age of thirty-nine, Che Guevara was dead.
