Irishman killed in Bolivia was linked to bomb attack, inquest told

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Guardian

Irishman killed in Bolivia was linked to bomb attack, inquest told.
Peter Walker guardian.co.uk,
Wednesday 14 October 2009 02.00 BST

An Irish man shot dead in Bolivia after allegedly becoming mixed up in a rightwing plot to assassinate the country's president was killed by a single bullet wound to the heart, possibly inflicted as he sat up in bed, an inquest heard yesterday.

Security worker Michael Dwyer, 24, was killed when police raided a hotel in the capital, Santa Cruz, on 16 April. A local autopsy said he had been killed by six bullets. But Paul Malone, solicitor for the Dwyer family, told Dublin County coroner's court that the Irish state pathologist had found just one bullet wound, which was apparently fired from above.

Dwyer was killed in the raid together with Eduardo Rozsa Flores, a Bolivian of Hungarian descent who held Croatian citizenship, and Arpad Magyarosi, a Romanian with Hungarian citizenship. The other two had suspected links to a far-right group blamed for attacks on indigenous Bolivians, and authorities said they had plotted to kill Evo Morales, Bolivia's president, who is from an indigenous background.

The Irish government has requested an international investigation into Dwyer's death following reports that the three men were asleep when the shooting started. Bolivian police say they died during a 30-minute gun battle. At the inquest, Malone also questioned why authorities waited three weeks to reveal that two guns were found in Dwyer's room, and why reporters and members of the public were allowed into the room after the deaths.



Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/14/ireland-bolivia

[Joanne98]

1. The RW killed him. Dead men don't talk.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Could be! All roads afterward led directly to the extreme right wing bastards of Santa Cruz

who sponsor these Youth Movement shock troopers who beat, kick, shoot, kill indigenous people, and who been caught before in various assassination schemes.

They are known for marching into poor neighborhood and clubbing the bejesus out of the indigenous poor living there with these clubs imbedded with spikes.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Bolivians were investigating man before his death

Bolivians were investigating man before his death
By Georgina O’Halloran

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

THE young Tipperary man shot dead by police in a Bolivian hotel was being investigated by the authorities there prior to his death, the country’s ambassador has told an inquest into his death.

Michael Dwyer, aged 24, of Ballinderry, Nenagh, Co Tipperary, was shot dead along with Eduardo Rozsa Flores and a third man, Arpad Magyaroson, on the fourth floor of Hotel Las Americas in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz on April 16, 2008.

Bolivian ambassador to Britain and Ireland, Beatriz Souviron, told the inquest, which was heard at Dublin County Coroner’s Court yesterday, that Mr Dwyer was being investigated by the Bolivian government prior to his death as part of a group which was trying to "cause some problems in Bolivia. The life of my president was threatened and other leaders", she said.

Ms Souviron revealed that their airline tickets had been paid for by Bolivian businessman Alejandro Melgar, whom she said has been arrested for being part of a terrorist movement to separate Santa Cruz from the country.

Ms Souviron, who emphasised that the investigation in Bolivia was ongoing, said that police came to arrest the group on April 16 and that they resisted arrest.

"There was a crossfire between the room and the corridor when the police came to arrest them."

The ambassador said guns were found in the rooms of the three men, including one nine millimetre gun and one 22mm gun in the room of Michael Dwyer.

She said residue of gunshot was also found on Mr Dwyer’s hands.

More:
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/bolivians-were-investigating-man-before-his-death-103304.html#ixzz0TrseosUI

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Michael Dwyer does Bolivia.

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Washington Post.Newsweek Interactive 5 months ago
In this undated photo released by Bolivia's state press agency ABI, ethnic Hungarian Elod Toazo poses with a sniper rifle at a hotel in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Toaso survived an April 16, 2009 pre-dawn police raid, along with Mario Tadic of the Balkans, in connection with an alleged plot to kill Bolivia's President Evo Morales at the Hotel Las Americas in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Police killed three men during the raid: Bolivian-born Eduardo Rozsa Flores, Michael Dwyer of Ireland, and Arpad Magyarosi of Romania. Toaso and Tadic were jailed without bail on terrorism charges after a closed hearing.

[timeforpeace]

4. So in Bolivia, if you're under suspicion, that's a death sentence? Saves on lawyers fees.

[sabrina 1]

7. If the police come to arrest you and you shoot at them

in this country, they tend to shoot back. Looks like we are not in a position to criticize police in other countries who do the same thing. Assuming that is what happened.

[subcomhd]

5. Some more background

Mr Dwyer travelled to Bolivia last November with two Hungarians and a Slovak he had met while a security guard team leader on Shell’s Corrib gas pipeline project in Co Mayo. The men were due to take part in a bodyguard course in Bolivia but when the course did not materialise the men Mr Dwyer had travelled with to Bolivia returned to Ireland.

One of them, Tibor Resves, introduced Mr Dwyer to a Bolivian of Hungarian origin, Eduardo Rózsa Flores. Mr Flores offered Mr Dwyer unspecified security work and Mr Dwyer stayed on to take up that work.

The Bolivian authorities believe Mr Flores was being paid by Santa Cruz businessmen to begin an armed struggled to secure independence from Bolivia for Santa Cruz. The anti-terrorist police in Bolivia moved in on the men’s hotel in Santa Cruz on April 16th last, killing Mr Dwyer, Mr Flores and another man.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/1014/1224256618310.html

[subcomhd]

6. Rozsa Flores sounds interesting

Rozsa Flores, a 49-year-old leftwing journalist turned far-right adventurer, with antisemitic views, joined Croatian forces when war broke out in the former Yugoslavia, leading an armed group which attracted foreign rightwing elements.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/14/ireland-bolivia

[rabs]

8. There is a movie starring himself titled "Chico."

(On the Latin America forum we extensively discussed this man and his plot to assassinate Bolivian President Evo Morales after he was shot to death in Santa Cruz de la Sierra along with the others last April.)

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A political adventure that incorporates documentary footage and real-life events into its narrative, Chico is the story of a man who bears witness to -- and participates in -- some of the most groundbreaking political events in history.

Born in Bolivia, Chico is part Jewish and part Catholic, the product of an upper-middle-class household ruled by his aristocratic Spanish mother and communist father. During his childhood he experiences the dizzying social upheaval of Salvador Allende and the subsequent terrors of the Pinochet coup.

As a young man and aspiring political freedom fighter, he travels to communist Hungary and ends up a Party member, only to question Marxist ideology after the fall of communism in both Hungary and the Soviet Union.

He then becomes a reporter in Croatia, where he experiences the devastation of war and quickly becomes a soldier, a move that forces him to make a decision that will affect not only his life, but also those of the inhabitants of a small village. Chico was screened at the 2002 Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema.
~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie

http://www.fandango.com/chico_v250501/summary