José Antonio Arze Murillo

José Antonio Arze Murillo (born January 17, 1924 , † 2000 ) was a Bolivian politician and diplomat .

Life

José Antonio Arze Murillo studied law , practiced the profession of lawyer and was a functionary of the youth organization of the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario . On April 9, 1952 at 11 p.m., supporters of Víctor Paz Estenssoro gathered on the construction site of his house in Calle Chaco N ° 51 in Alto Sopocachi . There they were disarmed by the police chief Donato Millán and taken to the police station on calle de Ayacucho. After talking to Paz Estenssoro over the phone, Donato Millán told the insurgents that they were free and offered them additional weapons.

In 1957, José Antonio Arze Murillo was Minister Counselor in Paris and became the representative of the Bolivian government at UNESCO . In 1960 he was Secretario General de la Presidencia. From January 5, 1962 to February 3, 1964 he was Ministro de Gobierno. Philip Agee introduced Arze Murillo in his diary from 1956 to 1974 as a long-serving employee of the CIA in La Paz. Arze Murillo reported to US Ambassador Ben Solomon Stephansky (1913 - April 19, 1999) that he was expecting acts of violence from opponents of the government on May 1 , 1963, and noted that the protesters had light Czech weapons. The US ambassador feared that the Bolivian military involved in the suppression of rioting were armed so weakly that if the street fighting escalated, they could fail. As a result, he applied for funding for L32A1 FN Browning Riot Guns , pistols and ammunition for these security forces.

Juan Lechín Oquendo was preparing to run for president after Víctor Paz Estenssoro's tenure . Despite a state visit to Taiwan , Ben Solomon Stephansky was not convinced by Lechín's performance for US capital. Ben Solomon Stephansky offered Foreign Minister José Fellman Velarde a presidential campaign in the El Diario newspaper , but the latter turned it down. Ben Solomon Stephansky found a collaborator in Arze Murillo. Juan Lechín Oquendo was defamed as a cocaine dealer and sent as an ambassador to the Italian government.

In January 1964, the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario Eduardo Rivas Ugalde, Ministro de Asuntos Campesinos, was elected Secretario Ejecutivo del MNR (acting party secretary of the MNR) at the party convention . On February 3, 1964, José Antonio Arze Murillo was able to take over the office of Minister of Agriculture, and Vice-President Rubén Julio Castro, who was not nominated for the candidacy for the office of Vice-President at the party convention of the MNR, was appointed Minister of the Interior.

On November 5, 1964, René Barrientos Ortuño was put to power; his interior minister, Antonio Arguedas, accused Arze Murillo of embezzling a company car. Arze Murillo wrote a letter to US Ambassador Douglas Henderson , recalling that it was a donation of 30 vehicles to the State Security Forces (Control Político) that had been registered in the names of the security forces for an unknown reason . The USA did not want to appear as an aid to the MNR police apparatus. Douglas Henderson then turned to Antonio Arguedas and advised him not to remember the matter and not to disturb the ex-Home Secretary, who had threatened to file a complaint. As a result, Arze Murillo lived in peace.

On the morning of May 11, 1976, Arze Murillo presented an appointment signed by Hugo Banzer Suárez in January 1976 to join Joaquín Zenteno Anaya in Paris and invited him for a cup of coffee, which he informed his wife by telephone. Zenteno Anaya waited in the Brasserie Eiffel on 16 Avenue de President Kennedy, 20 minutes, drank two cups of coffee until he felt moved by José Antonio Arze Murillo and went to his metallic blue BMW 530 in a parking lot near the Pont de Bir-Hakeim came. When he tried to unlock his vehicle, a man around 30 years old with brown hair, beard, brown suit and sunglasses fired three 7.65 mm caliber rounds from a pistol on his head and back. The shooter fled to the Passy metro station and was shielded by a roughly thirty-year-old, 1.75 m high, sun-gazed Barbouze. A bilateral communique for AFP claimed the act for a member of the Brigades International Ernesto "Che" Guevara . The communique claimed that Zenteno Anaya was responsible for Che Guevara's death. Furthermore, the decision of the Bolivian government not to extradite Klaus Barbie to France, as well as May 8 as the official date of the unconditional surrender of the German Reich. The dichotomous worldview, with Che Guevara on one side and Klaus Barbie on the other, was reprinted by Le Figaro the following day. The government of Raymond Barre apparently had no doubts about the motive for the murder of Joaquín Zenteno Anaya, who was posing with the dead Che Guevara, and chartered a plane from Air France for transfer to Bolivia. The mourners from Leonor Sejas Sierra, the widow of Joaquín Zenteno Anaya, Walter Gómez and the arms dealer Honorary Consul Claude Dumont accompanied a delegation from the French Foreign Ministry, led by State Secretary Jean François-Poncet . After a few hours at Lima Airport , the sun had already set when the plane asked for permission to land at El Alto Airport . She was denied this. The pilot of the Air France plane explained that his fuel would not be enough to an alternate airport, and sat on the landing, just before touchdown was the landing lights of the El Alto airport shut down. Hugo Banzer Suárez received condolences from a member of the French delegation , Jean François-Poncet did not leave the plane. Joaquín Zenteno Anaya received a funeral like a national hero. The French governments regularly sent ambassadors to the Banzer regime. With regard to the appointment of a new ambassador to Paris, an agrément was met in Banzer's second term, 18 years later .

literature

• "Arze Murillo, José Antonio", in: Spanish, Portuguese and Ibero-American Biographical Archives (ABEPI)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ When the company was founded in 1947, it took over the duties of the FBI in Latin America.
2. ↑ James F. Siekmeier: The Bolivian Revolution and the United States, 1952 to the Present . 2011, p. 96
3. ^ Sergio Almaraz Paz: La Revolución Boliviana in documentation of the Conferencia Interancional . Revoluciones del Siglo XX: Tenemos pechos de bronce , pero no sabemos nada, p. 332
4. ^ Sergio Almaraz Paz, p. 331
5. ↑ Martín Sivak: El asesinato de Juan José Torres: Banzer y el Mercosur de la muerte . 1998, p. 157

predecessor	Office	successor
	Representative of the Bolivian government at UNESCO 1957 to 1958	Salvador Romero Pittari
Antonio Seleme Vargas	Interior Minister of Bolivia January 5, 1962 to February 3, 1964	Ruben Julio Castro
Eduardo Rivas Ugalde	Minister of Agriculture in Bolivia February 3 to November 5, 1964	Roberto Jordán Pando Ministro de Asuntos Campesinos;
Joaquín Zenteno Anaya	Bolivian Chargé d'affaires in Paris May 12, 1976 to October 19, 1994	Carlos Antonio Carrasco