Gustavo Sánchez Salazar

Gustavo Sánchez Salazar (born July 10, 1928 in the Municipio Totora (Cochabamba) ) is a former Bolivian journalist and politician.

Life

Gustavo Sánchez Salazar is the son of Bernadiana Salazar († November 9, 1982) and Arthuro Sánchez († March 1931), a landowner, activist of the Partido Liberal and multiple provincial governor. He is a half-brother of Félix and Rubén Sánchez Valdivia. He studied agriculture at the Universidad San Simón de Cochabamba . He married the village school teacher Alina Escóbar. They have a daughter and three sons. In his youth he was a member of the Partido de Izquierda Revolucionaria (PIR). In 1949 he was in the management of the Federación Universitaria Local (FUL) of Cochabamba . After Víctor Paz Estenssoro signed a law on land reform in Ucurena, Gustavo Sánchez Salazar was the coordinator of the agricultural reform at the departmental level. In the 1950s, the young agricultural engineer supported the Central Obrera Boliviana . In order to defend the revolution of April 9, 1952, he was involved in several armed conflicts. He was interned for some time with prominent leftists in the Puerto Villarroel camp. In Santa Cruz de la Sierra he worked as a publishing editor , reporter, editor and finally as deputy editor-in-chief of the daily Progresso . In 1962 he became a correspondent for the daily El Mundo from Cochabamba in Santa Cruz de la Sierra and months later he was a correspondent for the daily El Diario from La Paz . He was involved in founding the cooperative of the morning newspaper Extra and was a correspondent for the Fides news agency . At the end of 1963 he was visited by Elizabeth Burgos and Régis Debray .

On April 10, 1967, a division of the armed forces of Bolivia was ambushed by the Ejército de Liberación Nacional . Jesús Suárez Gayol and eleven members of the army were killed. 30 members of the army, including Rubén Sánchez Valdivia, were captured.

Secret police of René Barrientos had Régis Debray the photographer George Andrew Roth (* 1923, † 2003) and the artist Ciro Bustos in the early morning of April 20, 1967 Muyupampa arrested. After Rubén Sánchez Valdivia thwarted their shooting, they were taken to Camiri , where Gustavo Sánchez interviewed Salazar Debray and was portrayed by Ciro Roberto Bustos. With his stepbrother Rubén Sánchez Valdivia, who commanded the Regimento Colorado , personal protection of Juan Torres Gonzáles, Sánchez managed to get Régis Debray to be flown to Iquique on December 23, 1970 on a Fuerza Aérea Boliviana plane .

On October 9, 1967, Gustavo Sánchez reported from the La Higuera school in Vallegrande where Che Guevara had been shot.

In November 1970, Juan José Torres appointed Gustavo Sánchez Salazar Prefect of the Department of Cochabamba . Gustavo Sánchez Salazar was imprisoned from April to August 3, 1971 on charges of involvement in the murder of Jorge Solis Román (ex-Ministro de Asuntos Campesinos). A rivalry with Jorge Gallardo Lozada is assumed as the background .

After a hunger strike, Beate Klarsfeld received a photograph from El Diario at the end of September 1971 from Manfred Ludolph from the Department for National Socialist Violent Crimes of the Munich Public Prosecutor's Office I , which showed Klaus Barbie in a group of business people. Serge Klarsfeld conspired with Régis Debray , Klaus Barbie to kidnap. Debray recommended that Gustavo Sánchez Salazar be entrusted with the task. After the coup that brought Hugo Banzer Suárez to power, Sánchez Salazar went into exile in Chile because he knew the Chilean-Bolivian border from traveling to his mother. On October 20, 1972, Sánchez traveled to the Klarsfelds in Paris . He believed that support from the armed forces of Bolivia was necessary for the kidnapping . In December 1972, Serge Klarsfeld met with Debray in Santiago de Chile and, after a trip on a small plane, with Sánchez in Copiapó . A taxi hired for the kidnapping was total loss in an accident. A liaison officer on the General Staff of the Bolivian Armed Forces was arrested after an attempted coup. After the coup in Chile in 1973 , the plan had to be abandoned.

From the end of 1978 to 1982 Gustavo Sánchez Salazar lived in Havana , was employed by Radio Havana and Prensa Latina . In July 1980, he was by Manuel Piñeiro to La Paz sent to Luis García Meza Tejada to interview his impending coup, this declared off-the-record: I'm president of Bolivia, tell that to my friend Fidel Castro , him greetings from me , I'm making a revolution like him and that Bolivia would become a member of the Non-Aligned Movement . On the way back to the Hotel Sucre , where Sánchez Salazar was staying, he met Alfredo Ovando Candía . Both knew each other from a common youth at the Partido de Izquierda Revolucionaria (PIR). Over lunch Ovando reported what will happen: It is true, "Caballo" (English horse, nickname of Luis García Meza Tejada , because he was a good rider) will carry out a coup, but the one in charge of carrying it out is a friend of me and asked for advice, but couldn't give him advice because he's a fury. Who is this fury? Colonel Luis Arce Gomez. Arce was Ovando's adjutant during his presidency from January 2 to August 6, 1966.

Sánchez learned from Ovando that Arce intended to assassinate the leadership of the Central Obrera Boliviana , COB, Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, Hernán Siles Zuazo , Juan Lechín Oquendo , Simón Reyes, Toño Araníbar and other leaders. Ovando stated that he did not know the named people, except for Siles, and allowed Sánchez to warn them.

On February 4, 1983 at 9:30 am, Siles appointed Sánchez Deputy Minister of the Interior. At 10 p.m. on the same day, Klaus Barbie was deported to French Guiana via the El Alto military base under the leadership of Sánchez .

Under the presidency of Siles, he was Ministro de Gobierno from March 1985 to August 5, 1985.

Publications

• Barbie, criminal hasta el fin, Legasa, Buenos Aires, 1987.
• with Luis González The Great Rebel, Che Guevara in Bolivia, Grove Press, Nueva York, 1969.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chapter 19: "Impacto en el ejército" ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Página / 12 , October 1, 2001, ¿Quién traicionó al Che ?: la otra cara de Judas
3. ↑ Ricardo Herrera F. in Los Tiempos , August 9, 2009, Gustavo Sánchez ( Memento of the original from August 19, 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. "Klaus Barbie ejecutaba las órdenes de Arce Gómez" 

predecessor	Office	successor
Federico Álvarez Plata	Interior Minister of Bolivia March 1985 to August 5, 1985	Federico Kaune Arteaga