Jorge Vázquez Viaña
Jorge Vázquez Viaña (born January 2, 1939 in La Paz ; disappeared May 1967 ; pseudonym: El Loro or Bigotes ) was an intellectual revolutionary in the guerrilla Che Guevaras .
Life
He comes from a conservative, well-off family and grew up with his brother, Humberto, in La Paz, Bolivia. His father, Dr. Humberto Vázquez Machicado, was a noted Bolivian historian, the mother, Elvira Viaña Canedo, was a pianist. After his school education at the Instituto La Salle, he traveled to Germany with his brother in 1957 and enrolled as a geology student at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1958 he was a co-founder of the “Society of Bolivian Students” and also its president.
In addition to studying geology, he also worked intensively on painting (he signed with "Loro", a nickname by which he is also mentioned in Che Guevara's Bolivian diary) and, in the sense of agitation, with caricatures. Inspired by his mentor, Ramiro Otero Lugones , co-founder of the PCB, and by socialism in the GDR, he dealt intensively with communist ideology. In 1962 Vázquez Viaña returned to Bolivia and joined the PCB, the Communist Party of Bolivia. In 1963 he was already active for the PCB underground, running a secret printing company in La Paz and was involved in the transport of weapons for Masetti's guerrilla group in Argentina from a finca near Emborozú. At the end of 1965 Vázquez Viaña traveled to Cuba and received training in guerrilla tactics with other members of the PCB. In July 1966, Jorge Vázquez Viaña returned to his homeland to prepare for Che Guevara's revolution in Bolivia. He reached the base camp in Nacahuazu in November 1966. Only selected for logistical tasks, he was assigned to the vanguard on January 25, 1967. He was wounded and captured in a gunfight with the army on April 22nd.
death
After his capture, Jorge Vázquez Viaña was taken to the hospital in Camiri. His death is still unexplained. According to the Bolivian army, Vázquez Viaña was captured on April 22, 1967. Then he was taken to Camiri hospital with a shot in the stomach and has "disappeared" since April 30, 1967. According to Cuban sources, he was tortured and murdered after his capture and the corpse was thrown from the helicopter over the Bolivian jungle. He left behind his German wife and two children. Six bodies from Che Guevara's guerrilla have not been found to date. The Jorge Vázquez Viañas is one of them.
See also
literature
- Ernesto Che Guevara: The complete "Bolivian diary" (= Ernesto Che Guevara: Selected works in individual editions. Vol. 5). Published by Horst-Eckardt Gross. Weltkreis-Verlag, Dortmund 1999, ISBN 3-89144-008-1 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vázquez Viaña, Jorge |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | El Loro; Bigotes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bolivian guerrilla with Che Guevara |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Paz , Bolivia |
| DATE OF DEATH | after April 22, 1967 |