Bolivian authorities seek Hungarian man living in Ireland

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Irish Times

Friday, May 22, 2009
Bolivian authorities seek Hungarian man living in Ireland

CONOR LALLY and
in Budapest DAN McLAUGHLIN

BOLIVIAN AUTHORITIES investigating an alleged plot to kill political figures there and the related shooting dead by police of Irishman Michael Dwyer want to interview a Hungarian man living in Ireland.

The potentially key witness worked for the same Irish security firm as Mr Dwyer. The company is based in Co Kildare.

The 32-year-old Hungarian of Romanian extraction is believed to have worked for the company until recent weeks. He is still living in the Republic.

The Bolivians believe the man – a former soldier in the Hungarian army – was instrumental in bringing Dwyer to Bolivia from Ireland with a number of other men.

“According to our information, was the head and organiser of this group. Not only here but in his own country. He has experience of forming irregular groups,” said Bernardo Montenegro, a member of a Bolivian parliamentary commission investigating the case.

Read more: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0522/1224247110911.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. Bolivia terror gang’s links with far right

Bolivia terror gang’s links with far right
May 21, 2009 1:41 pm
news by Keith Richmond

THE magistrate investigating the case of three foreign mercenaries shot dead as they were apparently planning to assassinate President Evo Morales in Bolivia last month has released witness statements implicating key figures in the Comité Pro-Santa Cruz.

The CPSC – an umbrella organisation for big business, right-wing politicians and local nationalists – has been trying to undermine Mr Morales’ social revolution by campaigning for autonomy for the region.

In the early hours of April 16 an elite police unit, flown in from La Paz, stormed rooms at the Hotel Las Americas in Santa Cruz and shot dead three men – Eduardo Rózsa Flores, Arpád Magyarosi and Michael Dwyer.

They appear to have had several potential targets including President Morales, Vice President Alvaro García Linera, Minister of the Presidency Juan Ramón Quintana and Santa Cruz Prefect Rubén Costas.

Rózsa Flores, the ringleader, was born in Santa Cruz of Hungarian-Bolivian parents; he recorded a video in Hungary in which he declared his intention to travel to Bolivia to organise an armed militia in defence of his “homeland” of Santa Cruz. Rózsa Flores was a supporter of the right-wing Roman Catholic organisation Opus Dei and founded the neo-fascist First International Platoon to fight for the far-right in Croatia during the Balkan Wars.

More:
http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2009/05/21/bolivia-terror-gang%E2%80%99s-links-with-far-right/