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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jan Rocha

Brian Moser obituary

Brian Moser recorded key moments in the recent history of South America.
Brian Moser recorded key moments in the recent history of South America. Photograph: Titus Fossgard-Moser/Moser collection

In October 1967, when the body of Che Guevara was brought out of the Bolivian jungle lashed to a helicopter, Brian Moser was the first photographer on hand in Vallegrande to take what became iconic pictures of Latin America’s most famous revolutionary leader.

A week later, the trial began in nearby Camiri of Régis Debray, the French Marxist intellectual who had been captured after visiting the rebels, and Brian was there to film it, smuggling Debray a note with a message from Fidel Castro.

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