BOLIVIA: Hungarian Reporter Hid Plot

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La Paz, Apr 28 (Prensa Latina) The Bolivian government announced it would charge Hungarian journalist Andreas Kepes with hiding, for six months, details of the violent actions prepared by a terrorist group neutralized here on April 16.

Bolivia Reply Fells Terror Patrons
According to the official report, Kepes interviewed on October 2008 the leader of the group, Bolivian Eduardo Rozsa Flores, who was shot dead with two others in a police operation in the eastern region of Santa Cruz.

According to the Executive, Rozsa Flores planned to assassinate President Evo Morales and other leaders and figures of this Andean nation, as well as organize irregular gangs for the defense of Santa Cruz to establish it as an independent department.

Presidential Minister Juan Ramon Quintana pointed out that through diplomatic means, they would begin a trial against the professional who knew, beforehand that violent actions were to be perpetrated in Bolivia.

Quintana said the Ministry of Justice would present charges against Kepes for complicity and concealment and that he was expecting cooperation from Budapest.

Bolivia will also appeal to international conventions over the struggle against terrorism to push this trial forward, he pointed out.

On Monday a special commission of deputies in charge of investigating this case of terrorism will be making inquiries in the department of Santa Cruz.

On Thursday, elite forces of the police carried out an operation at Las Americas hotel in Santa Cruz, during which three extremists were killed and two were arrested after a shoot out.

They also seized weapons of different calibers and C-4 plastic explosive to be placed in the Telecommunications Cooperative of Santa Cruz (COTAS) stand at the Fexpocruz fair.

This weekend, the minister released a video that proves that the network's objective was to kill the president.

During the police operation on April 15, Irish Michael Dwyer, Romanian Magyarosi Arpak and Bolivian Eduardo Rozsa were gunned down, and Hungarian Elot Toazo and Bolivian-Croatian Mario Tadik were arrested.

The police is trying to find several people from the extremist cell that includes a man a.k.a. El Viejo.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Kepes is mentioned in this article:

Racism, Violence and Neo Nazism: Politics as usual in Santa Cruz Bolivia
Wednesday April 29, 2009 21:22 by Fionuala Cregan

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Shortly before travelling to Boliva, Roszas was interviewed by Hungarian journalist Andras Kepes.. He requested that the interview only be broadcast on his victorious return from Bolivia or should something happen to him. Following his death, the programme was broadcast on National Hungarian Television and in it Rosza states:

“I have been called to organise the defence of the city and province of Santa Cruz, the Council of Santa Cruz have voted for the creation of a regional security council. I will go to Brazil and Bolivia and begin to organise Militia. The organisers will provide funding and arms…illegally and probably from Brazil / I understand there will be a conflict with the Central Government…/ We won’t walk with flags, we will do it with arms, we will declare independence and create a new country.”

Following the raid on the hotel where Rosza and his men were staying, the police raided an exhibition hall in Santa Cruz and found a cache of weapons hidden at the stand of the Cruzena Telephone Cooperative (COTAS), the largest telephone company Bolivia, lead by Santa Cruz businessman Herland Suárez Antelo and with strong links to the Santa Cruz Civic Committee.

While this discovery implicates the Santa Cruz business community, it is not yet clear who it was that initially contacted Roszas. Evidence has however begun to emerge in Argentina which points to a former military general called Jorge Mones Ruiz.

Ruiz is one of the leaders of the “Carapintadas” or “Painted Faces” - a group of military generals who lead a movement to impede the processing of military generals for crimes against humanity following the end of the dictatorship in Argentina in 1982. During the dictatorship, 30,000 people were tortured and “disappeared” accused of communism and subversion by the military. In the final phases of the dictatorship, Ruiz was posted as head of the Argentinean Army’s intelligence operation in Bolivia where he became close friends with members of the business community in Santa Cruz. He is currently a leading member of the ultra-right organization known as UnoAmerica or One America. Founded in December 2008, this organization aims “ to curb the advance of “Castro Communism” and the new 21st Century Socialist manifestations of it, in particular those in Boliva and Venezuela.” (See http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-123612-2009-....html)

Investigations are now underway in Argentina and Bolivia into the involvement of Ruiz with the opposition in Santa Cruz and the organization of Rosza and his group.

More:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/92073