Bolivia wants terror backers from US

[Judi Lynn]

Source: La Prensa, La Paz, Bolivia

Friday, 05 June 2009
Bolivia wants terror backers from US

Bolivia: The government of Bolivian President Evo Morales will urge that the US repatriate Bolivian citizens accused of funding a terrorist cell neutralized in April, an official source confirmed Wednesday. Minister of the Presidency Juan Ramon Quintana said that in the coming days, he will head a delegation to the US to deal with that request at the Department of Justice.

The Public Ministry indicated that Hugo Acha, Alejandro Melgar, and Luis Hurtado Vaca, identified as members of the group funding the extremists led by Bolivian-Croatian Eduardo Rozsa Flores, fled to the United States.

Attorney Marcelo Sosa informed that the information found in electronic equipment allowed to confirm the names of some of the people involved.

He also mentioned retired Generals Lucio Anez and Gary Prado, and the president of the Council for Dues Administration, Juan Carlos Velarde.





Read more: http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/06/05/wld05.asp

[Judi Lynn]

1. Refreshing your memory concerning this assassination plot:

Morales rivals behind plot to kill him
Published: 4:25AM Wednesday May 06, 2009

Source: Reuters
The Bolivian prosecutor investigating an alleged plot to kill President Evo Morales said a witness had implicated leading opposition figures in the conspiracy.

Police raided a hotel last month in the opposition stronghold of Santa Cruz, killing three people and arresting two suspected of planning to assassinate the leftist Morales and other prominent figures.

Marcelo Sosa, the prosecutor leading the investigation, said a person linked to the group, Ignacio Villa, testified that Santa Cruz businessman Branko Marinkovic and the province's right-wing governor had offered financial help.

Marinkovic made Villa an economic offer and Governor Ruben Costas offered him a house and land, Sosa told reporters.

"The aim of both offers was to (encourage) them to finish what they had started, a string of attacks," said Sosa, adding that Costas, Marinkovic and several other businessmen from the wealthy agricultural province had been summoned to testify.

Marinkovic, a fierce critic of Morales and a prominent political activist, denied any link to the case.

"We emphatically reject this setup ... The accusations made by prosecutor Sosa are completely false," he was quoted as saying in Tuesday's edition of daily newspaper La Prensa.

Political rivals

Morales, a close ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, already had accused right-wing political rivals of involvement in the plan, which Costas and others have denied.

Costas has described the alleged plot as a show and the opposition condemned the police action as an execution.

Sosa said a second witness testified that Marinkovic gave the group US$200,000 to buy weapons.

In last month's raid, police killed the suspected gang ringleader, Bolivian Eduardo Rozsa, along with an Irishman and a Romanian.

A Bolivian and a Hungarian were arrested.

The Irish and Hungarian governments have questioned Bolivia's account that the men had plotted to kill Morales and other public figures to create a spiral of violence that would destabilize the energy-rich but poor Andean nation.

Rozsa, a veteran of the 1990s Balkans war, said in an interview filmed months before his death that he was travelling to Santa Cruz to defend the eastern province and support its separatist movement.

More:
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/morales-rivals-behind-plot...

[EFerrari]

2. Thank goodness we're not Afghanistan or the United States would invade us

for giving safe haven to terrorists!

[Judi Lynn]

3. Truly. Also for protecting mass murdering bomber Contra terrorists

like Luis Posada Carriles, and other Cuban "exile" terrorists, and those lovable "pro-life" stalkers.

We're up to our eyebrows in terrorists.

[Demeter]

4. If We Can Throw In Bush and Cheney, It's a Deal!

[Vidar]

5. We can dream, at least.

[Judi Lynn]

6. New Evidence on Bolivia Terrorism

New Evidence on Bolivia Terrorism
Friday 05 June 2009, San José, Costa Rica

La Paz - The Bolivian parliamentary commission probing the case of terrorism in Santa Cruz continues Thursday questioning new suspects of the Telecommunications Cooperative (Cotas) and the Federation of Stockbreeders(Fegasacruz).

Also in court are executives from the Santa Cruz Exhibition Fair (Fexpocruz), where the police seized different caliber weapons and C-4 plastic explosives in a stand of the exhibition site.

Fexpocruz officers stated Fregasacruz and Cotas officials as directly responsible of the action.

About 12 people from the two entities, among them Cattle chief Guido Nayar, who denied his link with the armed group even when there are witnesses, were called on Monday.

Nayar, former official of the Hugo Banzer government (1997-2001), has been involved with the terrorist cell by key witness of the Attorney's Office, Ignacio Villa, also known as "El Viejo."

According to Villa, the representative of the Santa Cruz Stockbreeders

also attended permanent meetings of the gang in Cotas.

The armed group was led by Bolivian Croatian Eduardo Rozsa Flores, who was killed in the operation along with Rumanian Magyarosi Arpak, and Irish Martin Dwyer.

Their aim was to destabilize and divide the Andean nation, according to witnesses.

Bolivian-Croatian Mario Tadik and Hungarian Elot Toazo were detained.

http://insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2009/june/05/la03....

[Judi Lynn]

7. Google translation terrorists' plot story

The Complot boliviana
Filed under: international, politics, terrorism, events

On 05-06-2009 17:06 CET Last brunosgarzini A shooting and a bomb which had been cut off murmurs and noise in the street where the Las Americas hotel in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, on April 16 last. Three bodies riddled by bullets left and two men were handcuffed and in perfect condition. Minutes before been faced with a special police unit that he was aware of all its steps.



Eduardo Rózsa in the Balkan war (Standing in the center / AP Photo)

In the group ambushed four are of foreign nationality and has dual citizenship, Bolivian and Croatian. One, the leader and the most important part of this plot is Eduardo Rózsa Flores, a former combatant in the war in the Balkans and former correspondent of La Vanguardia and the BBC, one of those who died. As he said in an interview with Hungarian television, he intended to enter the multicultural organizing militias to defend the autonomy of the arms of Santa Cruz.

Nor deny their links. Lawyers, politicians and activists of Cruz are being accused of having helped him and his men. These individuals, along with former soldiers involved in the Argentine dictatorship in that country, are identified by the key witness in the case, Vargas Ignacio Villa, known as the old driver Rósza and infiltrated the group, as collaborators with the aliens.

The Committee on Bolivian deputies, headed by a man from the ruling party, Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), and integrated by opponents, has not yet decided whether the cell was trying to kill President Evo Morales and his vice president, Alvaro Garcia Linera, or if organized "to protect Santa Cruz."

The group's leader has made 90 trips with a different name, different to most places and 12 outside Bolivia (Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Miami, Madrid, Asunción del Paraguay and Salta), after entering the country does not help for the opponents to defend personalities Cruz. Also does not like the airline Aero Sur has reported that a lawyer camba paid the passage of all the members of the suspected guerrillas.

In this unfavorable situation for them, the only defense of the accused has been to discredit the investigation and request that the case be sent to Santa Cruz. In addition to Bolivia to escape to avoid being arrested, mostly for United States.

With an intention to vote in the upcoming elections in more than 40% and the opposition has more chances of achieving over 35 points, President Morales did not seem to cause much of this to dump even more public opinion in their favor. For if they would take a good breath of air in the future would be for the opponents that will not remedy the scandal as the ravings of a group end up buried.

http://www.soitu.es/participacion/2009/06/05/u/brunosga...