Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz
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Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz was a Uruguayan
Uruguay
Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
political figure, who died by assassination in the framework of Operation Condor
Operation Condor
Operation Condor , was a campaign of political repression involving assassination and intelligence operations officially implemented in 1975 by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America...
. He arried with Matilde Rodriguez Larreta , had 5 children: Mark, John Paul, Magdalena, Facundo and Matthew.
Background and political role
He served as a Uruguayan deputy, and was member of the National PartyNational Party (Uruguay)
The National Party , also known as the White Party , is a major right-wing conservative political party in Uruguay, currently the major opposition party to the ruling Frente Amplio government....
. President of the Chamber of Deputies at the time of the coup d'État in 1973, he exiled himself in Argentina.
Assassination & prosecution file
Héctor Gutiérrez was found dead on May 21, 1976, at 9:20 p.m. in a red Torino sedan that had been abandoned at the corner of Perito Moreno and Dellepiane in Buenos Aires. Also found in the automobile were the bodies of former senator Zelmar MicheliniZelmar Michelini
Zelmar Michelini was a Uruguayan reporter and politician, assassinated in Buenos Aires in 1976 as part of Operation Condor....
, and of Tupamaros militants William Whitelaw, 29, and Rosario del Carmen Barredo, 26, both also Uruguayans and living in Buenos Aires since the military coup in Chile of September 11, 1973. All of them, abducted May 18, 1976 in Buenos Aires by a paramilitary group, had been tortured and shot; they had their hands and feet bound. Also kidnapped was Benjamín Liberof, 55, a Communist doctor born in Argentina and a naturalized Uruguayan, whose whereabouts remain unknown.
On November 16, 2006, judge Roberto Timbal assigned to preventive detention former dictator Juan María Bordaberry
Juan María Bordaberry
Juan María Bordaberry Arocena was a Uruguayan politician and cattle rancher, who first served as President from 1972 until 1976, including as a dictator from 1973 until his ouster in a 1976 coup...
as well as the former Chancellor Juan Carlos Blanco Estradé
Juan Carlos Blanco Estradé
Juan Carlos Blanco Estradé is a Uruguayan political figure.-Background:He comes from a distinguished Uruguayan political family. His father Daniel Blanco Acevedo was a Deputy representing Montevideo in the 1940s and 1950s. His grandfather Juan Carlos Blanco Fernández was himself Uruguayan Foreign...
as the organizers of these crimes. Uruguayan police officer Hugo Campos
Hugo Campos Hermida
Hugo Campos Hermida was a Uruguayan police officer.-Background:Hermida also received training in the United States, including from the Drug Enforcement Administration.-Significant roles:...
has also been suspected of being responsible of this assassination.