Joaquín Zenteno Anaya

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Joaquín Zenteno Anaya (born November 11, 1921 in Cochabamba , † May 11, 1976 in Paris ) was a Bolivian general, foreign minister and diplomat.

Life

Joaquín Zenteno Anaya married Leonor Sejas Sierra. From November 5, 1964 to August 6, 1966 he was Foreign Minister in the René Barrientos Ortuño government . As such, he concluded a social agreement with the Francisco Franco regime in February 1966 .

From 1967 to 1968 he was in command of the Octava Division Del Ejercito-Bolivia (8th Army Division) which had its garrison in Vallegrande in the Santa Cruz Department . In 1967 on October 9 Che Guevara of Felix Rodriguez interviewed by Mario Terán had been shot, posed Joaquin Zenteno Anaya with the corpse.

From October 5, 1973 to May 11, 1976 he was ambassador to Paris . While unlocking his blue limousine in a parking lot near the Pont de Bir-Hakeim, he was shot three times in the head and back by two men in sunglasses with a 7.65 mm pistol . A Maoist International Brigade, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara , claimed the act as revenge for Zenteno's participation in the fight against the guerrilla de Ñancahuazú .

On June 11, 1976, El País reported that Zenteno Anaya came to Paris after he had resigned as commander in chief of the Bolivian army in protest because Colonel Andrés Selich Chop (* December 8, 1927 in La Paz; † May 15, 1973 ibid ) had not survived the torture in the house of his successor as Minister of the Interior, Alfredo Arce Carpio (born March 19, 1941, † February 10, 2001). Selich Chop had been suspected by Hugo Banzer Suárez of preparing a coup and fell out of favor. The von Banzer regime spread that he fell down a flight of stairs with his hands tied. His autopsy found death from blows to vital organs.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ABC , 19/02/1966, CONFERENCIA DE PRENSA El ministro boliviano de Relaciónes Exteriores, don Joaquín Zenteno Anaya, ha recibido los periodistas en un hotel madrilleno para hablarles, entre otras cuestiones, del Acuerdo social concertado antro España y su país
  2. ↑ Caption: "Joaquin is poking his finger into a bullet hole", in: "Che Guevara" ( Memento from October 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ "Grail. Joaquín Zenteno Anaya, 1964–1966 ” ( Memento from March 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Martín Sivak, El asesinato de Juan José Torres : Banzer y el Mercosur de la muerte, p. 26
  5. ↑ El País , 2 MAR 2001, Arce Carpio , asesor político del presidente de Bolivia, fue asesinado, Chronology: Guevara in Bolivia La muerte del coronel Selich , Sergio Israel, El Enigma Trabal , p. 128, El País , 11 JUN 1976 Zenteno Anaya, última victíma de una venganza infinita
predecessor Office successor
Fernando Iturralde Chinel Bolivian Foreign Minister
November 5, 1964 to August 6, 1966 		Alberto Crespo Gutiérrez
Arturo Vilela Bolivian ambassador in Paris
October 5, 1973 to May 11, 1976 		Salvador Romero Pittari
personal data
SURNAME Zenteno Anaya, Joaquín
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bolivian military, politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Cochabamba
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1976
Place of death Paris