el_chavista
26th December 2011, 19:14
Buenos Aires, December 25. Security forces on Saturday captured in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and drove to his home country the former Colonel Luis Enrique Baraldini, Argentinian "carapintada" (painted face), who was chief of police in the province of La Pampa during the last dictatorship and was required by international justice, charged on serious human rights violations.
Baraldini, who used false documents with the name of Marco Antonio Aponte when he was arrested yesterday at the airport of Santa Cruz, was wanted by the Argentine law since 2003 and was protected by right-wing sectors of the Bolivian fascist.
As reported here tonight Argentina's Security Minister, Nilda Garre, he is "a very looked after official, long time fugitive and extreme ferocious in the years of state terrorism, and also showed dangerous until recently, when in Bolivia he participated in an assassination attempt against President Evo Morales."
He recalled that the former officer of 73 years participated in Operation Condor, working with the dictatorships of Hugo Banzer (1971-1978) and Luis Garcia Meza (1980-1981) in Bolivia, witnesses and local causes mention him as a terrible man who was directly involved in the torture of detainees during the last dictatorship (1976-1983).
Baraldini's name came to light when investigating the assassination attempt against President Evo Morales, Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera and other officials aborted on April 16, 2009, upon discovering a terrorist cell coming from the outside in a hotel Santa Cruz, composed of mercenaries from various sources, linked to the fascist sectors in the war in the Balkans.
The statements of these and other witnesses pointed to former Argentine military officers linked to the Bolivian right wing, the same who had collaborated with the dictatorship of Banzer in Operation Condor and Argentina's dictatorship then when sent about 200 officers and advised the coup that overthrew the Lilia president bringing to power Gueiler Luis Garcia Meza, under whose regime was short time more than 600 people missing and hundreds killed.
Indeed, Baraldini was sent in 1980 as a military attache to the embassy of Argentina in Bolivia.
One of the key figures in the recruitment of paramilitary and military coup in Bolivia in 1980 was nothing less than Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie (under the name of Altman), a fugitive from trials in Europe and protected in Santa Cruz de la Sierra .
Both Baraldini and Jorge Mones Ruiz officer were reported by some witnesses in the thwarted terrorist attempt in April 2009 in Bolivia. Mones Ruiz is the Argentine representative in UnoAmerica, foundation created in Colombia in late 2008 with American right-wing military, mostly former members of past dictatorships in the region.
This organization, created to destabilize and hit the governments of South American Nations Union (UNASUR), especially those considered emerged from the Forum of Sao Paulo, including Venezuela and Bolivia, helped the military coup in Honduras in June 2009, and the former dictator Roberto Micheletti publicly honored the president of this organization, Alejandro Peña Esclusa, for their cooperation. Peña Esclusa is now being held in Venezuela, indicted for a plan to assassinate President Hugo Chavez.
On April 21, 2009 Bolivian Vice President García Linera had asked the government of Argentina for collaboration on this group of Argentine military. In a document sent by the Bolivian government on 4 May of that year reported that "businessmen and landowners in Santa Cruz de la Sierra" would request the presence of these former Argentine military officers to advise them and instruct "in self-defense before any arrests by government agencies "and other actions.
In Argentina, Baraldini trial had begun in 1984, but with the approval of the laws of Due Obedience and Punto Final, (1986-1987) these trials were suspended. On December 3, 1990 he was one of the soldiers who led a coup attempt against former President Carlos Menem, and was sentenced by this fact but then pardoned in 2002 by former President Eduardo Duhalde.
In 2003, when the causes involved in crimes against humanity were reopened, he fled to Bolivia, where he was protected by his "friends" so far.
from La Jornada, Mexican Newspaper.
Baraldini, who used false documents with the name of Marco Antonio Aponte when he was arrested yesterday at the airport of Santa Cruz, was wanted by the Argentine law since 2003 and was protected by right-wing sectors of the Bolivian fascist.
As reported here tonight Argentina's Security Minister, Nilda Garre, he is "a very looked after official, long time fugitive and extreme ferocious in the years of state terrorism, and also showed dangerous until recently, when in Bolivia he participated in an assassination attempt against President Evo Morales."
He recalled that the former officer of 73 years participated in Operation Condor, working with the dictatorships of Hugo Banzer (1971-1978) and Luis Garcia Meza (1980-1981) in Bolivia, witnesses and local causes mention him as a terrible man who was directly involved in the torture of detainees during the last dictatorship (1976-1983).
Baraldini's name came to light when investigating the assassination attempt against President Evo Morales, Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera and other officials aborted on April 16, 2009, upon discovering a terrorist cell coming from the outside in a hotel Santa Cruz, composed of mercenaries from various sources, linked to the fascist sectors in the war in the Balkans.
The statements of these and other witnesses pointed to former Argentine military officers linked to the Bolivian right wing, the same who had collaborated with the dictatorship of Banzer in Operation Condor and Argentina's dictatorship then when sent about 200 officers and advised the coup that overthrew the Lilia president bringing to power Gueiler Luis Garcia Meza, under whose regime was short time more than 600 people missing and hundreds killed.
Indeed, Baraldini was sent in 1980 as a military attache to the embassy of Argentina in Bolivia.
One of the key figures in the recruitment of paramilitary and military coup in Bolivia in 1980 was nothing less than Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie (under the name of Altman), a fugitive from trials in Europe and protected in Santa Cruz de la Sierra .
Both Baraldini and Jorge Mones Ruiz officer were reported by some witnesses in the thwarted terrorist attempt in April 2009 in Bolivia. Mones Ruiz is the Argentine representative in UnoAmerica, foundation created in Colombia in late 2008 with American right-wing military, mostly former members of past dictatorships in the region.
This organization, created to destabilize and hit the governments of South American Nations Union (UNASUR), especially those considered emerged from the Forum of Sao Paulo, including Venezuela and Bolivia, helped the military coup in Honduras in June 2009, and the former dictator Roberto Micheletti publicly honored the president of this organization, Alejandro Peña Esclusa, for their cooperation. Peña Esclusa is now being held in Venezuela, indicted for a plan to assassinate President Hugo Chavez.
On April 21, 2009 Bolivian Vice President García Linera had asked the government of Argentina for collaboration on this group of Argentine military. In a document sent by the Bolivian government on 4 May of that year reported that "businessmen and landowners in Santa Cruz de la Sierra" would request the presence of these former Argentine military officers to advise them and instruct "in self-defense before any arrests by government agencies "and other actions.
In Argentina, Baraldini trial had begun in 1984, but with the approval of the laws of Due Obedience and Punto Final, (1986-1987) these trials were suspended. On December 3, 1990 he was one of the soldiers who led a coup attempt against former President Carlos Menem, and was sentenced by this fact but then pardoned in 2002 by former President Eduardo Duhalde.
In 2003, when the causes involved in crimes against humanity were reopened, he fled to Bolivia, where he was protected by his "friends" so far.
from La Jornada, Mexican Newspaper.