Björn Kumm is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 journalist and author. He has written books on Latin America, the Cold War

Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...

, and on the history of terrorism.
As a young journalist, Kumm made the scoop

Scoop (term)

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 of his life in 1967, when he was one of the few people who witnessed the dead body of Che Guevara

Che Guevara

Ernesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist...

 after the execution of the captured revolutionary leader by Bolivia

Bolivia

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n troops. Kumm described the scene in a November 11, 1967, exclusive for The New Republic

The New Republic

The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...

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In 2007, Kumm wrote a biography on Guevara called Che.