BOLIVIA Links Prefect to Terrorists

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La Paz, May 14 (Prensa Latina) The prefect of Santa Cruz, Ruben Costas, had several telephone calls and meetings with Eduardo Rozsa, leader of the terrorist group disbanded April 16.
La Razon daily says Bolivian Croatian Mario Francisco Tadic told the public prosecutor that Costas was involved in the plot with Rozsa, who died during the police raid.

When the asked about links between the extremist leader and the town council, Tadic said they had two or three meetings, which he overheard in conversations.

Tadic said a few days before disbanding the group at Las Americas hotel, in Santa Cruz, the chief asked him his phone number, and some numbers were recorded in his cellphone.

For the second time Costas name has been linked to the extremist group. The first was with Prosecutor Marcelo Sosa who revealed on May 4 connections between the armed group and Santa Cruz authorities, among them the prefect.

Sosa relied on statements by some detainees who said the cell was to engage in separatist actions and assassinate President Evo Morales and some cabinet members.
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http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=83125&Itemid=1

from one of the Croatian mercenary scums. Beautiful.

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Costas sharing a moment of familiarity with fellow oppositionist,
Branko Marinkovic, who stands completely behind him.

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AP Photo 8 months ago
Bolivia's Santa Cruz province Governor Ruben Costas, left, listens to opposition leader Branko Marinkovic in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008. Government opponents are demanding Bolivia's President Evo Morales cancel a Dec. 7 referendum on a new constitution that would help him centralize power, run for a second consecutive term and transfer fallow terrain to landless peasants.



They even had little "autonomy" shirts made up for them.

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Reuters Pictures 11 months ago

Autonomist governors Mario Cossiuo (L) of Tarija, Leopoldo Fernandez (C) of Pando and Ruben Costas (R) of Santa Cruz shakes hands during an autonomy refendum in Cobija, Pando, June 1, 2008. Voters went to the polls in eastern Bolivia on Sunday in the second referendums on autonomy in a month, adding momentum to growing defiance by regions against leftist president Evo Morales.

1/5/09
Bolivia: Santa Cruz racist violence caught on camera

http://www.incakolanews.blogspot.com/2009/01/bolivia-santa-cruz-racist-violence.html

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Is the United States Funding Violent Opposition Groups in Bolivia?


Written by Dan Beeton, Center for Economic and Policy Research

There's a fair amount of evidence that the U.S. has already funded violent actors among the Bolivian opposition, even from the relatively little that we know about recent grants through USAID and so on:We know that since President Morales’ election, the U.S. government has sent millions of dollars in aid to departmental prefects and municipal governments in Bolivia. See e.g.:

USAID DATA Sheet: Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance

USAID/OTI Bolivia Field Report

"OTI has approved 101 grants for $4,066,131 to help departmental governments operate more strategically." We know that Leopoldo Fernandez, as a prefect, received some of this money. As you know, he is not someone who has merely written "anti-Evo op.eds," he was found by the UNASUR commission that investigated the September violence in Porvenir to have led a "chain of command” of perpetrators who acted "in an organized fashion” to commit a "massacre."

From the "USAID/OTI Bolivia Field Report July - September 2006": "OTI activities are aimed at building the capacity of prefect-led departmental governments to help them better respond to the constituencies they govern.…During the third quarter, OTI has continued to build on its activities designed to enhance the capacity of departmental governments. OTI isimplementing projects in coordination with all nine departmental governments, most recently collaborating with the prefectures of Beni,Pando, and Oruro. The projects provide technical support and training for prefecture staff in the areas of strategic planning, budgeting andproject management. They also build institutional capacity related to financial and administrative systems, transparency mechanisms,communications and outreach. In addition, OTI approved new projects designed to help prefectures more efficiently and strategicallyapproach their responsibilities in regional economic development, departmental infrastructure and social services.”

We also know that USAID has similarly funded and worked with Ruben Costas in his capacity as prefect of Santa Cruz. To take one example, again from the "USAID/OTI Bolivia Field Report July - September 2006":

“During the third quarter, OTI approved a total of 24 projects for $913,000. Thirteen of the new projects, totaling $465,800, are being implemented in support of the decentralization process through strengthened departmental governments. One newly-approved set of activities in the departments of Pando, Tarija, Potosí and Santa Cruz will facilitate the transparent, efficient flow of information between the various offices and divisions within prefectures. Its goal is to improve communication between departmental governments and stakeholders
at the local government and community levels.”

Ruben Costas has most recently been in the news again after witnesses told prosecutor Marcelo Sosa that Costas had offered “a house and land” to Eduardo Rozsa Flores and the other plotters in the terrorist cell broken up by Bolivian authorities on April 16, 2009. Whether this accusation turns out to be true or not, I would argue that Costas has clearly supported violence against both the Bolivian government and indigenous people in Bolivia in other ways.

Costas made numerous statements supporting the violence as it unfolded in September 2008. On September 9, 2008, the Andean Information Network reported that “In response to the day’s violence, Santa Cruz Prefect Ruben Costas claimed that these outbursts reflected the 86% of people in his prefect who voted for departmental autonomy.” Costas did not mince his words, according to AIN: “This is not a coup d’état, nor a civic-prefectural coup,” but rather a response “to the violence and repression of a fascist Government.”<. . .>“What happened today in Santa Cruz is the consequence of State terrorism that the government exercises, of the blindness that impedes them from recognizing the peoples’ right, the free determination and sovereignty of the departmental autonomy.”

Costas has also stirred up racial hatred by calling Morales “a monkey,” which is not trivial considering the ongoing racial violence against indigenous Bolivians by the UJC, Camba Nation, and various other groups.

Was Phillip Goldberg really surprised to be expelled after being caught having a clandestine meeting with this man?

More:
http://democracyctr.org/blog/2009/05/is-united-states-funding-violent.html

Mario Tadik prefect Costas linked to the mission of Rózsa
In his first statement to the Prosecution, the member of the disbanded group said April 16 that there were meetings and telephone contacts with the prefectural authority. Prefectura be subtracted from the validity of the statement.

In his statements to the Prosecution, the alleged member of the terrorist group, Tadik Mario Astorga, Eduardo Rózsa had said that telephone contacts and meetings at least three occasions, with the prefect of Santa Cruz, Ruben Costas, who he said " organizing something involving radio.
Reason accessed the transcripts of statements given to the Attorney Tadik on April 16 at 1645, after more than twelve hours of the police operation in the Las Americas hotel in Santa Cruz, which ended the life of Rózsa, Arpad Magyarosi and Michael Dwyer, and the arrest of Tadik and Corn Toaso.

"I heard that Edward had two or three meetings with the prefect Costas. He would only meet with him (Prefect), came to pick up different mobilities Eduardo "he replied when the prosecution consulted on what would be the higher of Edward."

Then he added: "I know that one of the deceased (in the operation) was the Prefect's house to advise on the safety of your home. Eduardo also spoke by cell phone saying that someone had to go to the home of Ruben. "

In his statement shows that, two days before the operation in the Las Americas hotel, Rózsa failed to communicate on your mobile phone and you borrowed hers. Upon return verified reports, which were recorded in cell numbers. "I know I talked to Ruben Eduardo, once I knew that he spoke with Eduardo Rubén Costas as 5 hours."

This is the second time you mention costs in investigating the case. The first was made by prosecutor Marcelo Sosa, when the night of May 4, in a surprise press conference, revealed the linkages with leaders of this movement Cruz, including the Prefect.

At the time that Vargas Ignacio Villa, known as El Viejo-key witness to the Prosecution and considered the "snitch" in the organization reported that Branko Marinkovic him a financial offer and the contact telephone with Ruben Costas, who offers a house and property. "

Tadik in their statements do not specify the contents of the meetings or discussions with Rózsa Costas said, but knew that they were organizing something, because I know what to buy radio equipment? Eduardo did not speak, he shouted, "concludes on this issue.

Statement in accordance with the Act, the member of the alleged terrorist group declares its readiness to cooperate in the investigation. "I just want to safeguard my security, because the heads that are behind it have power and money, I ask that my life and ensure my children," applied to the Prosecutor.

Coast, through the Attorney General of the Prefecture, Wladimir Peña, did not know that acting on the statements of the integral group Rózsa as they respond to a political interest.

The two survivors of the police operation were detained in the prison of San Pedro de La Paz accused of the crime of terrorism. Given the multi-party commission investigating the case, Tadik reports dealing with the translation of manuals and military intelligence organization, from English to Spanish.

Old, one of the people involved Costas, is pending, no date, a hearing "advance evidence" to testify about the case. On Friday, in Cochabamba declared the multi-party commission that helps in the investigation.

They deny the links

Attorney General of the Prefecture, Wladimir Peña, said the prefect Ruben Costas has no connection with the group or the actions executed by the alleged terrorist group led by Eduardo Rózsa Hungarian-boliviano.

Costs were not reported to act on the matter and reported that there is a political interest in this case because the departmental authority leads to the "democratic opposition".

Said that statements by Mario Tadik "are not evidence to link it with the organization alleged irregular and reiterated the need for international experts to take charge of the investigation with the aim of ensuring its transparency.

Tadik alongside Toaso Corn is one of the survivors of the police operation from April 16. In his first statement to the prosecution, revealed that Rózsa met and spoke with Costas.

Phrases Tadik

Relationships • "I heard that Edward had two or three meetings with the prefect Costas. He would only meet with him (Prefect), came to pick up different mobilities Eduardo. I know that one of the deceased (in the case of the 16) went to the house of the Prefect to advise on the security of your home. "

Contact • "Edward also spoke by cell phone with someone, stating that he had to go to the home of Ruben. The only thing that is important is that one or two days before the arrest he ruined the cell and took me, and put your chip. And, speaking from this cell. Appeared on my cell phone all the numbers. "

• certainty "that I spoke with Eduardo Rubén; once knew I spoke with Eduardo Rubén Costas as five hours. I know that they were organizing something, because I know what to buy radio equipment? Eduardo did not speak, yelled ... I very much regret having found this and I did not know what was coming. "

http://www.la-razon.com/versiones/20090514_006727/nota_256_811655.htm

Google translation.

Little has been cleared to one month of operating
Research. There are more questions than certainties in the case of alleged terrorism




Pablo Ortiz / Henrry Ugarte

Demand explanations for the capture of former Union

Three killed, five terrorism suspects, 30 and investigated hundreds of names mentioned is what is left to one month of operating the police that killed Eduardo Rózsa Flores, Michael Dwyer and Árpád Magyarosi hotel in Las Americas 16 April. To date, there are more doubts than certainties in an investigation conducted by the prosecutor Marcelo Sosa, who is challenged by the political opposition and yesterday decided to acknowledge that their key witness, Villa Ignacio Vargas.


So far it has only been accused Tadic Mario (boliviano-Croatian), elodes Tóásó (Romanian-Hungarian), and Juan Carlos Guedes Bruno Alcides Mendoza. The first two are survivors of the police operation, while the others are accused of arms suppliers to the alleged terrorist cell. Sosa expanded indictment against Villa Vargas, an individual with an extensive criminal record that allegedly led to most of the leaders in Santa Cruz group commanded by Rózsa, but has not been put before a judge because it supposedly is a diabetic terminal. Have also issued subpoenas to testify nine people and was the only one who found the general (r) Añez Lucio, who says that Mendoza was the link between the group and himself. The prosecution seeks to lawyers and Pereira Hugo Melgar Alejandro Antonio Acha, recognized as the alleged terrorist links between funders and the group. Both are in the U.S..


Also after Luis Alberto Hurtado and Enrique Vaca Vaca Pedraza suspended Cotas counselor and former operations manager of Fexpo, respectively, paid hotel rooms and Las Americas Bougainville, where the group stayed.
Sosa also involved a number of leaders and authorities and Cruz benianas that after stating that they would not be cited, ordered to investigate their accounts the Financial Intelligence Unit of the Superintendency of Banks.


So far we have heard unofficially Tóásó statements and Tadic. Both agree that everything is clarified quickly if the DPP is open five computers and cell phones turned seized rooms Rózsa, and Dwyer Magyarosi, but proceedings were delayed until the Prosecutor this week, when the artifacts were handed over to a consulting firm to be studied.


Amid all the wave of accusations without proof, is the lack of respect for human rights. Hungary, Croatia and Ireland have protested in public by the little information that the Bolivian Government has given the facts of the Las Americas hotel and especially the lack of prosecutors in the alleged shooting. Hungary and Ireland reserve the right to withdraw from the case to the European Union, while the lawyer Tóásó studies report the alleged torture of his client before the International Criminal Court.


Furthermore, in Ireland there is a legal complaint brought by the Dwyer family for his death. When his body arrived at Dublin, an autopsy was performed, whose results will be announced in about three months. From this evidence, Ireland will take decisions. While awaiting more specific information, the opposition denounced the politicization of the case and the government's interest in using it as a weapon in the campaign for December 6. For its part, the Government talks about terrorism and covenants required to be delivered to those involved not to involve the entire region.

Key People

Eduardo Rózsa
According to Tadic's statements and Tóásó was the only one who knew the entire operation and their linkages. As each member of the organization spoke a different language, Rózsa was who was responsible for communicating with everyone, without assigning tasks that the rest can communicate fluently with each other.

Tibor Révész
Is the head of the Guard or Guard Zsekler Magyar. There are signs indicating that he worked as a recruiter of international group. In Hungary and Romania has more than 5,000 people trained. He was in Bolivia at least between December 11 and January 9, where it remained lodged in the Hotel Las Americas.

Luis V. Hurtado
Along with Henry Cow, rented rooms in Bougainville and the Americas, where alleged terrorists are housed. They are the only two people who left footprints and evidence that implicated with Rózsa. It is believed that the two are no longer in the country and were suspended from their positions and Cotas Fexpo.

Hugo A. Acha
The former president of Bolivia Human Rights Foundation has been identified by several witnesses as a link between the financiers and Eduardo Rózsa. We nicknamed Superman. He admits that he met Rózsa, who went to his office to interview him as a journalist and then contacted three other occasions. You are in United States.

Alejandro Melgar
Nicknamed Lucas supposedly was an important leader because, according to Tadic, when he reached the hotel group's problems are solved. Could not be found. It is known that he traveled to Argentina, then Uruguay and is now believed that the former counsel to the center of reconciling CAINCO in Peru.

Ignacio Villa
It has a long history of cheating, theft and forgery agrabado material, but is considered key by the Prosecution. The credibility of his testimony depends largely, if Marcelo Sosa has in his hands. Yesterday he told the commission of Representatives and left doubts about whether what was said or told.

Timeline

- April 15. An explosion destroyed the door of the house of Cardinal Terrazas July, averaging 2:00.

- April 16. An elite group of police burst in the fourth floor of the Hotel Las Americas, at 4:00, and kills Eduardo Rózsa, Árpád Magyarosi and Michael Dwyer. Then goes to the booth occupied the heights in Fexpo and found weapons and explosives.

- April 17. Police presented the weapons, explosives, electronic documents and artifacts found on site and at the booth, and he clarified the attack on the cardinal's house, blaming Rózsa and his group.

- April 28. Juan Carlos Guedes Bruno Alcides Mendoza Masavi and were arrested in separate operations in Santa Cruz and moved overland to La Paz.

- April 29. Guedes and arrive in La Paz Mendoza, blindfolded with packing tape. Accuse them of providing weapons to the alleged terrorist cell, and they claim they were tortured.

- April 30. Guedes said the media and ensures that the target was Evo Morales, but wanted to eliminate the prefects of Santa Cruz, Ruben Costas and Beni, Ernesto Suárez.

- May 3. The government created the Amazon command, "to fight terrorism."

- May 4. Sosa The prosecutor referred to much of the leadership Cruz as being involved in the alleged terrorist cell.

- May 5. Witnesses contradict the prosecutor and denied having appointed leaders.

- May 8. Order to investigate the accounts of 30 leaders and benianos Cruz.

- May 13. Have the ballistics report, which claim that there were clashes in the hotal Las Americas April 16.

Original article:
http://www.eldeber.com.bo/2009/2009-05-16/vernotaahora.php?id=090516003328