Ecuador: Request to Reopen Probe on CIA Killing of Jaime Roldos
Ecuador: Request to Reopen Probe on CIA Killing of Jaime Roldos
Published 22 May 2019 (2 hours 45 minutes ago)
On May 1981, Roldos died on a plane crash, which created accusations that it was a part of a U.S.-backed assassination. | Photo: EDOC/EFE
Published 22 May 2019 (2 hours 45 minutes ago)
After a 2014 CIA document revealed that Ecuador assisted in Operation Condor, Ecuador’s ex- attorney general’s office opened an investigation into Roldo's death.
Prominent Ecuadorean historian Jaime Galarza presented a request on Wednesday at the Attorney General's office to reopen the investigation on the alleged role of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Israeli Mossad in the 1981 murder of former left-wing president Jaime Roldos Aguilera.
"That death to date remains unpunished and I do not say it remains a mystery, because of mystery it really had very little," Galarza has pointed out many times. In his book, "Who Killed Roldos," he argues that the CIA and the Israelis were involved in the crime as part of Operation Condor in the region.
The respected historian and writer documents that after the death of the president information was misplaced, people were threatened, peasants from the alleged area of the accident disappeared and there were successive plane crashes where military personnel involved or aware of the event died.
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On May 1981, he died on a plane crash, which created accusations that it was a part of a U.S.-backed assassination. Panama President Omar Torrijos, who also was critical of the U.S. role in the region and was known for his human rights leadership, coincidently died two months later in a similar plane crash.
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