Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz

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Héctor "Toba" Gutiérrez Ruiz (born February 21, 1934 in Montevideo , † May 1976 in Buenos Aires ) was a Uruguayan politician and journalist .

From 1959 to 1960 he studied philosophy in Spain. In 1961 he married Matilde Rodríguez Larreta , with whom he had five children. One of his sons is Mateo Gutiérrez . From 1971 to 1972 he was the head of the daily El Debate . Gutiérrez Ruiz, who belonged to the Partido Nacional , sat in the 40th and 41st legislative periods as a member of the Tacuarembó Department from February 15, 1967 until the coup on June 27, 1973 in the Cámara de Representantes . 1972 and 1973 he held the office of President of the Chamber. After he fled to Argentina after the coup d'état and sometimes lived there in illegal accommodation with Zelmar Michelini and Mario Benedetti , he, like Michelini and the Tupamaro activists Rosario Barredo and William Whitelaw, became part of Operation Condor on the night of May 19 Kidnapped in 1976 by an Argentine-Uruguayan military command. On May 20, 1976, they were found tortured and murdered in a car. The kidnapping and murder is the subject of the documentation Destino Final .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz en la perspectiva de su hijo" ( Memento of the original dated June 12, 2008 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. , El País of May 29, 2008  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elpais.com.uy
  2. ↑ List of Uruguayan parliamentarians from 1830 to 2005 on www.parlamento.gub.uy ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 7.8 MB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.parlamento.gub.uy
  3. ↑ "Farewell to Mario - Ernesto Kroch remembers the Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti" by Ernesto Kroch
  4. ↑ "Uruguay has refused to draw a line under the past for twenty years" on www.rechte-heilt.de
  5. ^ "Causa Michelini - Gutiérrez Ruiz en Buenos Aires - Aires nuevos"
  6. ↑ "ESTRENO DE FILM SOBRE GUTIÉRREZ RUIZ - Sin final feliz"
personal data
SURNAME Gutiérrez Ruiz, Héctor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gutiérrez Ruiz, Toba (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo
DATE OF DEATH May 1976
Place of death Buenos Aires