New Evidence on Bolivia Terrorism

[Judi Lynn]

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.htm

[Judi Lynn]

1. 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/brunosgarzini_1244179087.html

[Judi Lynn]

2. Melgar, who's hiding in the US with Acha,paid for transportation of 8 terrorists

from Europe to Bolivia, and two of them out of Bolvia according to this article and its google translation:

"The money for the autonomy it Rózsa"
The contributions of business leaders and institutions must go into the independent movement. In Santa Cruz rejected the complaint.

Based on data assigned to the Santa Cruz elite, the government through the deputy minister of government, Marcos Farfán reported that nearly $ 40 million entrepreneurs and leaders who contributed to the autonomy of institutions were diverted to a separatist movement assigned to the group Eduardo Rózsa.
In the circles of the Santa Cruz elite is upset over the fate of their input, said Farfan. "The separatist movement, by way of autonomy, which was made in Santa Cruz has handled nearly 40 million dollars. There is concern among financiers. "

Without identifying the funders, said that "partners, including board members, were unaware of this (separatist efforts). He has been an arbitrary use of resources by some of its members to give them a target offense, "he added.

From Santa Cruz, civic leader Luis Núñez rejected the claims of the Government. "We want to end these insults to Santa Cruz," he said, while the legal director of the prefecture, Vladimir Pena, recalled that the referendum on the autonomous status of May was spent only 11 million bolivianos.

"If the Deputy has other information must be in ignorance of what has happened or are inventing," he said.

The prosecution, as part of their investigation, citing state executives Cotas, CRE, Saguapac and institutions such as Fegasacruz, Fexpocruz looking for possible links with the finance group Rózsa.

The executive Fegasacruz, Guido Nayar, was one of those activities and denied knowledge of the alleged irregular group. However, Farfán doubted statements Nayar.

To date, investigations by the Prosecutor and the Deputies of multi-party commission, headed by Cesar Navarro, identify and Hugo Melgar Alejandro Acha, both in United States, as the intermediate group of funders.

Navarro reported that Melgar paid tickets from Madrid to Santa Cruz for eight members of the group Rózsa.

According to Farfan, the prosecution is making progress in the investigation of the case.

The facts

• An operational action executed April 16 disrupted the alleged terrorist group led by Rózsa. The prosecution, in La Paz, began investigations to testify, citing executive institutions Cruz.

• The statement "snitch" in the group, Villa Ignacio Vargas, involved in the case of Cruz leaders, including the prefect Ruben Costas and the former civic Branko Marinkovic, who he said made $ 250,000 for weapons.


Melgar paid accomplices of passages 8 Rózsa

Eight alleged members of terrorist group by Eduardo Rózsa arrived in Madrid from Bolivia with paid tickets in the airline Aerosur, worth $ 16532.7, the former arbitration lawyer CAINCO Alejandro Melgar, who was linked in the case and today is in United States.

The detail is contained in a report from the airline made public yesterday by Deputy César Navarro, who heads the multi-party commission that helps in the investigation conducted by the Prosecution concerning the alleged irregular disrupted the group April 16.

Melgar paid the ticket from Madrid to Santa Cruz de Michael Dwyer, Corn Tóásó, Daniel Gaspar, Ivan Pistovcak Mario Tadic and Árpád Magyarosi, Gabor and Tibor Révész Dudog. Paid for the return of Gaspar, and Pistovcak Révész.

Dwyer and Magyarosi were killed in the operation and Tóásó is in jail. Dudog track was lost in Santa Cruz. From United States, in an interview with media, Melgar admitted that he met Rózsa, but denied that he has become aware of their activities.

For Navarro, Hugo Melgar and Asha, representative of the Human Rights Foundation and also involved in the case, the intermediate link of funders. "We must find the dome Funding."

http://www.la-razon.com/versiones/20090604_006748/nota_256_823150.htm

[Judi Lynn]

3. Bolivia terror gang’s links with far right

Bolivia terror gang’s links with far right
May 21, 2009 1:41 pm admin frontpage, 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.

Two other foreigners – Mario Tadic from Croatia and Elöd Tóásó from Hungary – were arrested and are still being questioned while two more – named as Daniel Gaspar and Gabor Dudog – are still being sought by police.

Ignacio Villa Vargas, a local fixer and driver for the gang, has told the investigating magistrate, Marcelo Soza, that key civic leaders in Santa Cruz were involved in the plot including Branko Marinkovic, the recently retired president of the CPSC, and Hugo Achá, who runs the Santa Cruz office of the US-based Human Rights Foundation. Both men have denied any involvement.

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