In 1997, nearly 30 years after Che’s death, one of the soldiers who carried out the burial revealed that his body lay beneath Vallegrande’s airstrip. The spot is marked by a mausoleum adorned with the stereotypical smiling image of Che that beams out across the valley.
The Bolivian and Cuban governments called for his exhumation and Che was officially reburied in Santa Clara, Cuba on October 17, 1997. The interior can only be visited by guided tour, but the building is clearly visible from the bus station.
