المنتقمة لتشي جيفارا***مونيكا ارتل

مونيكا ارتل .. الملقبة " بالمنتقمة لتشي جيفارا "
Monika Ertl .. known as "Che Guevara's avenger"

كانت مونيكا ارتل ابنة المخرج الألماني المعروف "هانز ارتل" ، سافرت إلى بوليفيا بعد انفصالها عن زوجها وانضمت إلى الذين نجوا من حملة بوليفيا بعد اغتيال تشي جيفارا ، كانت تساعدهم وتوفر مأوى لهم ، كانت تحب "تشي جيفارا" لدرجة أنها قررت أن تنتقم من الذين قتلوه ، قامت بتحديد واحد منهم "روبرتو كنتانيليا بيريز" وهو الذي كان مسؤول عن قطع يد تشي ، تم تعيينه قنصلاً لبوليفيا في ألمانيا تتبعته وذهبت وراءه إلى ألمانيا وهناك تنكرت كصحفية طلبت مقابلته وعندما قابلته ضربته بالرصاص ، ثم عادت إلى بوليفيا إلى قوات المتردين فأطلقوا عليها لقب " المنتقمة لتشي " وفي عام 1973 قام الجيش البوليفي باغتيالها وذكر والدها في مقابلة تلفزيونية بأنهم قاموا بتعذيبها قبل قتلها بعدها دفنوها في مكان غير معلوم.

Monika Ertl came to Bolivia in 1952 when her father brought the family over from Germany. In Bolivia she accompanied her father on several filming expeditions and learnt to use both a film camera and firearms. Later she entered a marriage briefly, but felt unhappy playing the "trophy wife" of a Bolivian-German mining engineer. After her divorce she became involved with the survivors of Che Guevara's routed guerrilla movement. After helping out in minor occasions she finally joined the political underground. In Germany, she became known as "Che Guevara's avenger" because of her alleged involvement in the murder of Colonel Roberto Quintanilla Pereira in Hamburg, Germany: although this has never been completely proven it can safely be assumed that she did shoot Quintanilla who, at the time, was serving in Hamburg as the Bolivian consul. A former leader of the 'National Liberation Army' (ELN) of Bolivia, Osvaldo "Chato" Peredo, confirmed in an interview filmed by German director Christian Baudissin in 1988 that Quintanilla was a prime target of the ELN, because he had been responsible for ordering the hands of Guevara be cut off and sent to La Paz for further identification. He also states that Ertl "after carrying out the mission in Hamburg" returned to Cuba where she met with Régis Debray.

After being under covert observation for several days she and another guerrilla were eventually ambushed and killed by Bolivian security forces on May 12, 1973 in El Alto (in La Paz) where she was reorganizing the ELN. Her body was not turned over to her family to be buried and she rests in an unknown grave.