1 Peso 40th. anniversary of Guevara's death

Che Guevara was killed in Bolivia on October 9, 1967, on the orders of the Bolivian government with CIA involvement — his remains weren't repatriated to Cuba until 1997, thirty years later. Cuba has issued commemorative pesos bearing his image repeatedly since 1977, and the 2007 fortieth-anniversary issue sits in a long line of politically motivated domestic commemoratives produced for a currency that functioned largely outside normal market circulation.