Roberto D'Aubuisson Arrieta
Roberto D'Aubuisson Arrieta (born August 23, 1944 in Santa Tecla , † February 20, 1992 in San Salvador ) was a Salvadoran intelligence officer, later a politician and presidential candidate of the ARENA party. D'Aubuisson was responsible for numerous death squad murders in the country in the 1980s .
Life
Intelligence agent
D'Aubuisson was born in Santa Tecla in 1944. After attending the military academy , he made a course at the School of the Americas in 1972 . He began his service in the Salvadoran military intelligence agency Agencia Nacional de Seguridad Salvadoreña (ANSESAL). D'Aubuisson was responsible for numerous killings by death squads, including: B. 1980 for the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero .
Impunity
On May 7, 1980, six weeks after Romero's murder, D'Aubuisson was imprisoned. He and others arrested were accused of participating in the murder of Romero and of overthrowing the junta Revolucionaria de Gobierno . D'Aubuisson was released after his imprisonment provoked terrorist attacks as well as domestic resistance.
He was never charged in his lifetime. In 1986, however, former American Ambassador Robert White testified in Congress that D'Aubuisson was involved in planning and carrying out the murder of Archbishop Romero. He called D'Aubuisson "a pathological murderer".
On March 20, 1993, thirteen months after his death and five days after the publication of the report of the Comisión de la Verdad para El Salvador , which described D'Aubuisson's main culprit in the Romero case and others as proven, the Parliament of El Salvador issued a general amnesty for the criminals of the civil war.
For the ARENA party
Roberto D'Aubuisson founded the nationalist party ARENA on September 30, 1981. For this he was a member of parliament from 1982 to 1985 and from 1985 to 1992. From 1982 to 1985 he was also President of the Constituent Assembly.
On March 25, 1984 D'Aubuisson ran for the presidential election. In the election campaign he split watermelons with a machete; For him, the watermelon stood for the opposing Partido Demócrata Cristiano , which, in his opinion, was green on the outside (the party color) and red on the inside (for communism ). D'Aubuisson lost in the second ballot against the opponent of the Partido Demócrata Cristiano, José Napoleón Duarte . He claimed the elections were fraudulent and influenced by the US in their favor.
After the ARENA lost its majority in the March 31, 1985 congressional election, D'Aubuisson resigned as leader of the party. His successor was Alfredo Cristiani Burkard .
Roberto D'Aubuisson Arrieta died of cancer in 1992 after a long and serious illness.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vicky Imerman: Notorious Salvadoran School of the Americas graduates. Retrieved May 1, 2015 .
- ↑ Murderous Powers. In: Der Spiegel. Retrieved May 1, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | D'Aubuisson Arrieta, Roberto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Salvadoran secret service agent and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa Tecla |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1992 |
| Place of death | San Salvador |