Camiri was the site where the French intellectual Régis Debray and Argentine artist Ciro Bustos, members of Che Guevara´s guerilla group, were held and tortured following their capture. Debray spilled the beans on Guevara’s operation and Bustos sketched the group members for his captors. The site of their imprisonment was this museum, then the local military barracks. Bustos’s original images are displayed in the Cuartel’s ‘Casino’ – the site where, bizarrely enough, Debray was married.
He received a two-hour ‘permission’ for his nuptials before returning to his cell. The two were tried and found guilty (what a surprise!) in the local library.
