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Why were Che Guevara’s hands removed after his death?
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After Che Guevara was captured and executed by the Bolivian army in October 1967, his hands were removed by authorities before his body was secretly buried. This action was taken specifically to preserve the hands in formaldehyde so that his fingerprints could be obtained and used to definitively confirm his identity.12