Opposition linked to alleged Morales death plot

Source: Irish Times

Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Opposition linked to alleged Morales death plot

TOM HENNIGAN in São Paulo
LEADING FIGURES in Bolivia’s opposition were involved with the group which included Irishman Michael Dwyer and allegedly planned to kill the country’s left-wing president Evo Morales, according to the prosecutor investigating the case.

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The prosecutor said his evidence is in part based on testimony from four witnesses: Mario Tádic, the Bolivian of Croatian descent and one of the two men arrested in the hotel where Dwyer was killed; Juan Carlos Gueder Bruno and Alcides Mendoza, both arrested last week in Santa Cruz and accused of supplying the group with a weapon; and Ignacio Villa Vargas, described by the prosecutor as his key witness.

Said to have acted as a local fixer for the group, Villa Vargas is a 51-year-old career criminal with a police record dating back to 1981 involving fraud, dealing in stolen cars and falsifying US visas. He is reportedly gravely ill with diabetes.

He says he was present at meetings involving the group’s leader, Eduardo Rozsa Flores, Mr Marinkovic and the other prominent figures implicated. At one meeting he claims Mr Marinkovic rang Mr Costas, the regional government’s head. Mr Costas supposedly offered the group a house and land where they could stay and train.

Mr Marinkovic is accused of providing the group with $200,000 to buy arms. The money was given to Argentine gun dealers who disappeared with it without providing weapons, according to one of the other witnesses, Alcides Mendoza.


Read more: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0506/1224245993807.html

regarding Dwyer. They can call themselves what they like but they'll always be Nazis.

and that several of the others also were there. I've read that several of them were in the same unit at the time.

You would find researching Branko Marinkovic, the largest landowner in Bolivia to be very productive. He's Croatian, his father was Ustashi and moved to Bolivia, as did other German Nazis like Klaus Barbie, ratline people who were GIVEN land which had belonged to Bolivian indigenous citizens.

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Branko Marinkovic

Here's a very quick grab for a little background:

Partner Organization
The principal organizations of the autonomy movement are receiving support from Western industrial nations - including Germany. It drew worldwide attention when the Bolivian government recently expelled the US ambassador. He had been strengthening the autonomists. He could draw on years of experience accumulated during the breakup of Yugoslavia, where, according to reports, he had participated in US - and German - destabilization measures <6> to promote the secession of the Yugoslav constituent republics and the province of Kosovo. The Bolivian organization FULIDE (Fundación Libertzat y Democracia) maintains relations with German and US circles promoting secession. FULIDE is close to several conservative US political foundations and propagates the autonomy of the eastern provinces. FULIDE is also a member of RELIAL (Red Liberal de América Latina), the partner organization of the German Friedrich Naumann Foundation (affiliated to the Free Democratic Party - FDP). RELIAL was founded at the initiative of the Naumann Foundation in 2003 and is its close cooperation partner. The Naumann-Foundation's representative in RELIAL expressed satisfaction, when, at a network meeting, FULIDE director Walter Justiniano spoke of the autonomy movement in eastern Bolivia. With his speech, the FULIDE leader is encouraging RELIAL "to intervene more directly in the internal affairs of this South American country" said the Naumann representative.<7>
Swastikas
One of the most controversial figures of the autonomous movement is a member of FULIDE: the large landowner Branko Marinkovic. Marinkovic is FULIDE's spokesperson and at the same time, president of the Comité pro Santa Cruz, an association of large landowners favoring autonomy. Its youth organization is known for its violence and fascist behavior. The display of swastikas has been documented at several of their political rallies. Bolivian observers point out that Bolivia has its own history with the swastika. After 1945, numerous Nazis had taken refuge in this South American country, among them the mass murderer, Klaus Barbie. Barbie had served several Bolivian dictators - in their counter insurgency efforts.<8> Barbie was in contact with several fascist circles.<9> Nazi affiliated Croatian Ustashi had fled also with him to Bolivia, including some, whose families are among the autonomy supporters. According to the media, the father of Branko Marinkovic, the large landowner and president of the autonomists had also been a member of the Croatian Ustasha before coming to Bolivia shortly after the war.<10>

Putsch Attempt
Bolivian security forces suspect circles close to Marinkovic to be behind the putsch attempt that was uncovered last week.<11> With the help of contacts to Germany, these circles continue their struggle against the Morales government, which has just been confirmed by a two-thirds majority in a referendum. At the same time the German government continues its subversive activities under the guise of its so called development policy. To what extent Berlin's privatization objectives will be reached - not only in Bolivia, but also elsewhere - will depend not least of all on the government in La Paz and the strength of its defense against foreign interference.<12> The outcome of the autonomy struggle for the Bolivian eastern provinces is therefore of direct significance also for Berlin.

More:
http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/fulltext/56193

Also, worth pondering, the ambassador to Bolivia, sent there by _{George W. Bush} was involved in the breakup of Yugoslavia, himself, has been called the "ambassador of racial cleansing," good old Philip Goldberg who was sent packing at the end of last year after more white racists separatists in this area slaughtered an entire group of Bolivian indigenous citizens attempting to cross a river, firing down at them from tree tops and flat bed trucks.

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The top 2 photos, caught by a local Bolivian tv station reporter show Goldberg meeting with Santa Cruz separatist governor, Ruben Costas after midnight, privately. This was shown on tv news AFTER he had insisted he had only met with Costas in a PUBLIC meeting. I suppose if anyone else sees it, then it's "public."

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The third photo shows Goldberg standing with one of the separatists Dadoub on his right, and next to the Colombian paramilitary (death squad leader) Jhon Jairo Venegas, with a Goldberg security man on the end.

Article on the recently discharged _Bush ambassador, Philip Goldberg:

The Ambassador of Ethnic Cleansing
http://machetera.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/the-ambassador-of-ethnic-cleansing/

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German Nazi war criminal, Klaus Barbie, and one of his Bolivian dictator bosses, ethnic terrorist,torturer/murderer President Hugo Banzer