Bolivia unseals files from military dictatorship

[Judi Lynn]

Bolivia unseals files from military dictatorship

Submitted by WW4 Report on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 18:08. The Bolivian Armed Forces has completed the declassification of files from the years of military dictatorship. According to Defense Minister Ruben Saavedra, Chief of Staff General Ramiro de la Fuente handed over the files to Public Ministry officials three days before schedule last month. The files are mostly from the regime of Gen. Luis García Meza (1980-1981), and will be placed at the disposal of judicial authorities to investigate the disappearance of opposition figures under his rule.

At least 170 people disappeared in Bolivia in the period of military rule from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Among the more prominent victims is the founder of Bolivia's Socialist Party, Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, who disappeared during the military coup that Garcia Meza led on July 17, 1980. (NNN/Prensa Latina, Feb. 24)

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CALL FOR BOLIVIAN ARMY INTELLIGENCE JOURNAL DECLASSIFICATION
NAM NEWS NETWORK Mar 12th, 2010

LA PAZ, March 12 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – Bolivian former Vice Minister of the Interior Luis Arce Gomez revealed that there is a Army Intelligence diary that can explain on the “forced disappearances” cases during the 1980 dictatorship.

The former soldier, who is imprisoned in La Paz, suggested the handing over of the Armed Forces document to the judicial authorities that are investigating the disapperance of Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, Renato Ticona and Juan Carlos Flores Bedregal.

In July 2009, Arce Gomez, a main collaborator of Dictator Luis Garcia Meza at the turn of the 80’s, was deported by the United States.

More:
http://news.brunei.fm/2010/03/12/call-for-bolivian-army-intelligence-journal-declassification/

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