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LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Bolivian photographer Freddy Alborta, famous for his image of revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara lying dead, has died in La Paz, his family said.
Alborta worked as a photojournalist until earlier this year when illness forced him to retire. He died on Wednesday at age 73.
In 1967, Alborta was one of a group of journalists allowed to view Guevara's body after he was captured and executed by the Bolivian army.
The picture of the leftist guerrilla, with his eyes open and surrounded by soldiers, was first published in a Bolivian newspaper and then transmitted by newswire around the world as proof Latin America's leftist hero was dead.
In the photograph, Guevara is lying half-naked on a cot in a hospital wash room in the isolated town of Vallegrande, some 430 miles from Bolivia's capital. His head is propped up and one officer is pointing to his bare chest.
The Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary helped Cuba's Fidel Castro seize power in 1959 and later led a guerrilla band in southeastern Bolivia in 1967.