July 14 - During Ché Guevara's campaign,
Honorato Rojas guided a dozen insurgents into a deadly trap, where Captain
Mario Vargas ("The Lion of Masicurí") was waiting with
his troups. No one was able to escape. The Masicurí river washed
away the blood of the pierced bodies. Today, dark shadows pause next to
the body of the sleeping man, and a shot shatters the stillness of the eastern
night. Honorato Rojas has died, executed by the E.L.N. guerrillas. Rumors
have it that Inti himself carried the operation. Teoponte, a Guerrilla. Experience. Hugo Assman. |
September 9 - Out of the five survivors, only the Bolivians Inti and Darío remain underground in the country, continuing their political activity, trying to bring back to life the legend of the E.L.N. Inti dies in a clash against Police forces in a search mission in La Paz. A few months later, Darío meets with the same fate. |
November 9 - Inti Peredo dies in La Paz after being discovered by the government's security service under Toto Quintanilla's command and Klaus Altman's counseling. |
December 31 - "Dario" (David Adriázola Veizaga), the last of the guerrilla fighters, dies in La Paz in a clash against the government's security forces. |
1969 - The book The CIA in Bolivia is published. It includes statements by all commanders and officers who had in their hands or knew of Ché Guevara's Diary-- given when the source of the copy published in Cuba was investigated. These classified documents had been stolen from the Army's General Staff in 1968. |
1970 |
June 18 - In a demonstration starting at the university, the Revolutionary Christian Democratic Party, led by Adalberto Kuajara, Luis Messone, Oscar Eid, Jerjes Justiniano, Guillermo Capobianco, Bismark Kreiler and other extremists, takes the Police by surprise as the unarmed officers watch the demonstrators from headquarters in Calle Independencia. A bomb is hurled into the entranceway of the Headquarters. Agents Walter Palma and Juan Zapata are killed; fourteen commanders, officers and agents are wounded. |
July-October - In Teoponte, a group of university students under Chato Peredo's command rise as a guerrilla front. Approximately twenty men die; only Peredo and his 2nd Lieutenant Jorge Ruiz Paz (Omar) are able to escape. |
October 12 - Osvaldo "Chato"
Peredo Leigue is made prisoner by the Armed Forces in the village of Tipuane.
The last leader of the E.L.N. was apprehended along with Mario Suárez
Moreno, former vice president of the Bolivian Confederation of University
Students. Diario Presencia, La Paz, October 22 ,1970. |
July 29 - Marcelo Ovando, Gen. Alfredo
Ovando Candia's son, dies in a tragic accident in a Mustang F-51 airplane
on the banks of Lake Titicaca. El Diario, La Paz. |
1970 - In Cochabamba there is a failed attempt, by members of the E.L.N., on the life of Lieut. Eduardo Galindo. |
December 10 - Chato Peredo accuses the
Bolivian army of macabre actions during their attempt to crush the insurgent
movement, in which 9 guerrilla fighters died in combat and more than 30
have been executed by shooting. Diario Presencia, La Paz. |
December 23 - Regis Debray is released
and placed in the Chilean bor- der. General Juan José Torres' government has likewise released Ciro Bustos and the Bolivian guerrillas sentenced to thirty years in prison. |
1971 |
April 1st - Col. Roberto Quintanilla, the Bolivian Consul General in Hamburg, is murdered. The efficient Intelligence Officer for the Ministry of the Interior was shot by Mónica Ertl (Imilla), a member of the E.L.N., with a pistol given to her by the Italian terrorist editor Fratinelli [Feltrinelli]. |
Colonel Toto Quintanilla, Intelligence Chief in 1967, and now Bolivian consul, is murdered in his office in Hamburg by Mónica Ertl, a guerrilla fighter with German/Bolivian nationalities. |
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