Andrés Selich Chop

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Date of birth

Andrés Selich Chop (born December 8, 1927 in La Paz ; † May 15, 1973 ibid) was a Bolivian military and diplomat.

Life

Colonel Andrés Selich Chop commanded a ranger regiment that captured Che Guevara on October 8, 1967 at 3:30 p.m. He ordered a military truck driver to the Vallegrande Hospital , who took Che Guevara's body to a mass grave.

On August 21, 1971, Juan Jose Torres with troops from the Santa Cruz Department and the support of the torture regime in Brasília from office coup . Andrés Selich Chop chaired a junta made up of Jaime Florentino Mendieta Vargas (* 1922) and Hugo Banzer Suárez from August 21 to 22, 1971 . From August 23 to December 28, 1971, he served as interior minister of the junta.

"We ran out of tear gas, we only have bullets."

- Andrés Selich Chop

Selich Chop fell out of favor with Banzer and was suspected of preparing another coup. In early December 1971, Selich Chop declared that there would be no cabinet reshuffle this year. On December 28, 1971, Banzer asked his cabinet to submit requests for resignation. Formally, Banzer had not yet appointed a new interior minister when he sent staff of the general staff to the interior ministry to dismiss subordinates of Andrés Selich Chop. Andrés Selich Chop failed when attempting to enforce official channels with pistol in hand. Colonel Mario Adett Zamora, commander of a regiment named after Tarapaca, was relieved as Minister of the Interior, arrested and sent to Asunción as ambassador .

From December 28, 1971 to May 15, 1973 he was ambassador to Asunción. In 1973 he traveled to La Paz , where he fell with tied hands down a staircase in the house of the interim Minister of the Interior, Alfredo Arce Carpio (born March 19, 1941; † February 10, 2001). His autopsy determined death by external force on the liver .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronology: Guevara in Bolivia
  2. ↑ Clarín (Argentina) , June 27, 1997, Afirman que el Che fue sepultado en una fosa común con otros dos guerrilleros
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel , November 1, 1971, BOLIVIA , Only balls
  4. ↑ El País , March 2, 2001, Arce Carpio , asesor político del presidente de Bolivia, fue asesinado
predecessor Office successor
Antonio Arguedas Mendieta Interior Minister of Bolivia
August 23 to December 28, 1971 		Mario Adett Zamora
Felix Trigo Bolivian Ambassador in Asunción
December 28, 1971 to May 15, 1973 		Adrián Berrenechea Torres
personal data
SURNAME Selich Chop, Andrés
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bolivian military, politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH La Paz
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1973
Place of death La Paz