Che Guevara’s 1967 Capture Exposes US‑Backed Counterinsurgency Patterns and Latin American Structural Struggles

The 1967 capture echoes a long pattern of U.S.-backed interventions in Latin America, from the 1954 Guatemalan coup that toppled Jacobo Árbenz to the 1973 Chilean coup against Salvador Allende, each justified by anti‑communist rhetoric. These interventions repeatedly installed militarized regimes that suppressed land reform and labor organizing, creating the very conditions that spawned guerrilla movements. Restoring this historical continuum reveals that Guevara’s fate was not an aberration but a predictable outcome of entrenched imperial policy.