Gary Prado Salmon

Gary Prado Salmón (* 1938 in Rome ) is a former Bolivian military and diplomat.

Life

The Prado Salmón family settled in Santa Cruz de la Sierra . Gary Prado Salmón is the father of attorney Gary Prado Arauz. He received military training in the United States and was captain of a rangers division that captured Che Guevara at La Higuera on October 9, 1967 . He gave Che two Astoria cigarettes, which the asthmatic smoked in his pipe. Che gave him two Rolex Oyster Perpetuals , one by Carlos Coello ("Tuma") for his son. He was not present at the execution the following day.

On July 4, 1974, Gary Prado Salmón and Raúl López Leyton set the motorized regiment "Tarapacá" on the march to La Paz and demanded the democratization of Hugo Banzer Suárez's regime and the punishment of high officials who have enriched themselves. The movement died out and the protagonists went into exile and the military were tacitly reintegrated into the army.

From November 24, 1978 to November 19, 1979, Gary Prado Salmón was Minister of Planning and Coordination in the government of David Padilla .

In May 1981, supporters of had Falange Socialista Boliviana under the Minister of Health under Banzer Carlos Valverde Barbery oil conveyor Tita of Occidental Petroleum in Santa Cruz de la Sierra occupied, where Gary Prado Salmón on May 2 in 1981 by friendly fire perforated from the VIII Division lungs and the spine was injured, which is why he is dependent on a wheelchair .

From 1990 to 1993 he was Jaime Paz Zamora's ambassador to John Major . From 2000 to 2002 he was Hugo Banzer Suárez's ambassador to Vicente Fox .

Gary Prado Salmón is a protagonist of the Separation Movement of the Department of Santa Cruz . The Bolivian judiciary has accused Prado Salmón of meeting the mercenary Eduardo Rózsa to murder Evo Morales .

Publications

• Poder y Fuerzas Armadas 1949–1982, Editorial Los amigos del libro, La Paz, 1984,
• The defeat of Che Guevara , New York a. a. (Praeger) 1990, ISBN 0-275-93211-7 .
• Cómo capturé al Che, 1997
• El otro lado del puente, Punto, y Coma, Santa Cruz, 1989.
• with Edgar Claure Paz, Han secuestrado al presidente - 1990

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Clare Haregreaves: "This is the end, it's over". Interview, in: Financial Times , October 7, 2017, p. L&A 20
2. ↑ Eduardo Arze Cuadros, Bolivia , el programa del Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario y la Revolución Nacional, 2002, p. 313.
3. ↑ Elías Blanco Mamani : Enciclopedia Gesta de autores de la literatura boliviana. P. 150.
4. ↑ Los Tiempos , April 13, 2011, Ordenan detención de Gary Prado por inasistencia a juicio en Cochabamba ( Memento of the original of October 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

predecessor	Office	successor
Alejandro A. Pacheco	Bolivian Minister of Planning and Coordination November 24, 1978 to November 19, 1979	Jorge Agreda Valderrama
Marta Bosacoma Bonel	Bolivian ambassador to London from 1990 to 1993	René Navarro González
Raúl Angel Ossio Ayoroa	Bolivian ambassador to Mexico from 2000 to September 2002	Guido Rafael Capra Jemio