Bolivia: remains of "disappeared" socialist leader at military high command?

Bolivia: remains of "disappeared" socialist leader at military high command?
Submitted by WW4 Report on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 17:07.

Hugo Rodas Morales, author of Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, socialismo vivido, a new biography of the Bolivian socialist leader who "disappeared" in the military coup d'etat of July 1980, says that the martyred activist's remains are buried under the central flagpole at the headquarters of the armed forces high command in the Miraflores district of La Paz. Rodas cites a confession by School of the Americas graduate Col. Édgar Franco Montenegro that Quiroga Santa Cruz was buried below the high command flagpole after the coup. "We know that the remains are hostage of the armed forces," said Rodas. "The recognition of this reality is documented, there is no doubt that the remains are there."

In a commemoration of the coup anniversary this July 17, President Evo Morales said "the decisions that were taken by the ex-commanders were not because they wanted them, but the North American empire decided that was what the armed forces had to do." Rodas protested these words as implying the military commanders were "not responsible" for the abuses following the coup, and accused Bolivian officials of maintaining a "pact of silence" over the matter.

The Socialist Party-1, the organization founded by Quiroga Santa Cruz, issued a statement charging that Bolivia's Pluri-national Legislative Assembly, despite having created a medal honoring the martyred leader and naming a new anti-corruption law after him, is "keeping a complicit silence" on the question of the whereabouts of his remains. (Los Tiempos, Cochabamba, July 26; La Razon, La Paz, July 22)

Col. Franco Montenegro was charged with human rights abuses in 2002, but was granted an amparo, an official order protecting him from prosecution. (Tribunal Constitucional de Bolivia, Resolucíon 1574/2002-R)

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Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, speaking.

His Wiki, before the latest information:

Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz
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Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz (1931-1980) was a noted writer, dramatist, jourmalist, social commentator, university professor, and socialist political leader from Bolivia. In 1964 Marcelo won the Faulkner prize for his novel 'Los Deshabitados'

As a congressman, he was jailed by the regime of General René Barrientos (1966-69) for his loud denunciation of the 1967 "San Juan Massacre," in which dozens of dissenting miners were murdered by the army in the Bolivian highlands. In 1969, he was appointed Minister of Mining and Energy by de-facto President Alfredo Ovando, who purported to be a populist dedicated to bringing major structural reforms. Quiroga recommended, and then carried out, the controversial nationalization of the Bolivian concerns of the U.S.-based Gulf Oil Company. This turned him into a national celebrity of sorts. Forced out of the Ovando government by conservative officers who did not consider him a friend of the military institution, Quiroga went on to form, in 1971, the Partido Socialista (Socialist party of Bolivia). His portion of the party then came to be known as the Partido Socialista-1 following a split while in exile during the long years of the Hugo Banzer dictatorship (1971-78).

Upon returning to Bolivia in 1977, Quiroga participated in the presidential elections of 1978, 1979 (inconclusive) and 1980. He did particularly well in the 1980 contest, when he finished fourth with double the number of votes he had received in 1979. He was clearly on the rise, and, in fact, had become the most visible and popular spokesman for the Socialist left. From his congressional seat, he led the effort to bring to trial the former dictator Hugo Banzer, on charges of massive human rights violations and economic mismanagement. This may have cost him his life, for Quiroga was brutally abducted and subsequently assassinated during the early hours of the July 17, 1980, during the coup led by General Luis Garcia Meza. Many witnessed, at the headquarters of the Central Obrera Boliviana, his wounding and abduction by security forces. He had been participating in a high-level meeting to discuss ways to resists the coup. His body has never been found, nor those who killed him. His wife and sons are still searching for his body.

A gifted orator and uncompromising idealist, Quiroga is revered in Bolivia as one of the martyrs of the anti-authoritarian and pro-democratic struggles of the 1970s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo_Quiroga_Santa_Cruz

An article on him with images, in Spanish:
http://profesor-daniel-alberto-chiarenza.blogspot.com/2010/03/13-de-marzo-de-1931-nacimiento-de.html

It says he was tortured before he was executed.

...the sort of weird, incomprehensible twists you see from groups whose purposes have been twisted by the twist-masters in Langley.

The pro-Evo legislature is "keeping a complicit silence"..."despite having created a medal honoring the martyred leader and naming a new anti-corruption law after him"???

This strikes me as a U.S. psyops project, called "divide and conquer." Pick some sore point, about a hugely popular leftist government you want to topple, and rub, rub, rub it in, til it bleeds.

I'm not saying that the left is not prone to fractiousness, God knows. Could be just typical local in-fighting. But we've seen this CIA tactic so often that you gotta wonder. It is ESSENTIAL that Evo Morales keep the loyalty of the Bolivian military. So what does this leftist group do? They try to get a fight going BETWEEN Morales and the military. I think it smells.