Some Standard Cynical CIA-Style Cuba Covid Reporting at The Washington Post

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12. Woops, I misremembered the facts in that case...

...it didn't happen while he was prison commander, however he still took it upon himself to shoot the guy as apposed to letting a firing squad handle it as is normal in such cases.

Guevara was a harsh disciplinarian who sometimes shot defectors. Deserters were punished as traitors, and Guevara was known to send squads to track those seeking to go AWOL.[87] As a result, Guevara became feared for his brutality and ruthlessness.[88] During the guerrilla campaign, Guevara was also responsible for the summary executions of a number of men accused of being informers, deserters or spies.

In his diaries, Guevara described the first such execution of Eutimio Guerra, a peasant army guide who admitted treason...Che stepped forward and shot him in the head, writing "The situation was uncomfortable for the people and for Eutimio so I ended the problem giving him a shot with a .32 pistol in the right side of the brain, with exit orifice in the right temporal [lobe].

"summary executions" generally means no trial.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara