From a press release this afternoon:
The Pro-Santa Cruz Committee condemns and rejects the political persecution against Santa Cruz civic leaders.
Again the central government carries out state terrorism through the subservience of the justice system to the government.
Because of this, the Pro-Santa Cruz Committee condemns and rejects political persecutions and human-rights violations in Bolivia.
We sympathize with [...]
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Former head of the Pro-Santa Cruz Committee Branko Marinkovic was formally accused by prosecutor Marcelo Soza of financing the alleged terrorist cell that was broken up by Bolivian police last year, according to El Día. The prosecutor is linking Marinkovic, Santa Cruz prefect Rubén Costas, and cattle rancher Guido Náyar in the plot to assassinate [...]
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Posted in assassination plot on Dec 18th, 2009
Irish television network RTÉ has a 40-minute documentary on the alleged Santa Cruz terror cell that was gunned down earlier this year. It is a pretty balanced look at the group and what led to its existence in the Hotel Americas. The documentary does raise suspicions about the conduct of the Bolivian police on the [...]
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Posted in assassination plot on Dec 15th, 2009
Bina’s got the goods on another Irishman allegedly involved with the Santa Cruz terror plot earlier this year.
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The invaluable Bolivia Information Forum shipped October’s news briefing today. There are a couple of items from it that are interesting (along with another item from elsewhere):
President Evo Morales has disbanded the Unit for Tactical Resolution for Crisis (UTARC), a specially trained police force that was involved in the Santa Cruz terror-cell take-down earlier this [...]
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According to El Deber, the Santa Cruz daily.
Might former Pro-Santa Cruz Committee leader Branko Marinkovic be a little worried after he’s been fingered by Ignacio Villa Vargas–alias “El Viejo”–as the money man behind the alleged plot to assassinate Bolivian president Evo Morales? Doctors recommend that he “change his habits,” which, according to El Viejo, include [...]
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El Gaviero has just flown back to New York City, and boy is he tired. Unfortunately for him, the Bolivian news cycle never stops, and he now finds himself playing catch-up! Luckily for you all, other bloggers never rest. So here’s a round-up on the news from Bolivia:
Otto’s got a great translation of a damning [...]
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Posted in assassination plot, opposition on May 7th, 2009
Bina has a post entitled “Circling the Wagons in Santa Cruz,” about the seemingly desperate attempts by the opposition in that city–who are directly implicated in the April 16 terrorist group–to cast themselves as victims. Central to their claim of victimhood is the denial that any terrorist group existed–an impossibility, as the groups perfidity is [...]
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Blog From Bolivia has an analysis posted by Dan Beeton, from the Center for Economic and Policiy Research, of U.S. intervention and funding of violent opposition groups in Bolivia. This comes about after Beeton, the author of “The Fun House Mirror”–a critique of U.S. news reporting on Bolivia and the Morales administration–was confronted by Jim [...]
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Posted in assassination plot on May 6th, 2009
The Bolivian government is gradually exposing the varied secret relationships and alliances that connect the Santa Cruz terrorist cell to opposition leaders and departmental government figures. According to La Razón, dead thug Eduardo Rózsa Flores’s terrorist cell was funded by none other than former head of the Pro-Santa Cruz Committee, Branko Marinkovic (to the tune [...]
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