 On October 7 , 1967 , an informant apprised the Bolivian Special Forces of the location of Guevara 's guerrilla encampment in the <unk> ravine . On the morning of October 8 , they encircled the area with two battalions numbering 1 @,@ 800 soldiers and advanced into the ravine triggering a battle where Guevara was wounded and taken prisoner while leading a detachment with <unk> Cuba <unk> . Che biographer Jon Lee Anderson reports Bolivian Sergeant Bernardino <unk> 's account : that as the Bolivian Rangers approached , a twice @-@ wounded Guevara , his gun rendered useless , threw up his arms in surrender and shouted to the soldiers : " Do not shoot ! I am Che Guevara and I am worth more to you alive than dead . " 
