Paraguayan Torture Victim Key Researcher in Op Condor "Horror Archives"

VALLEGRANDE, Bolivia (AFP) " Latin American dictators of the 1960s
coordinated efforts in their attempt to track down Cuban-Argentine
Marxist guerrilla Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, killed by Bolivian forces in
1967, according to previously secret do***ents a researcher showed AFP.

The cooperation pre-dates Operation Condor, the secret plan hatched by
South American dictators in the 1970s to eliminate their political
opponents in the region.

An AFP re****ter saw the copy of a do***ent, dated October 3, 1966, of a
confidential re****t from the head of Paraguay's secret services
informing his Brazilian counterpart of Guevara's arrival in South
America.

"It is the first time that we find the name of Che Guevara linked to
the dictator****ps before the elaboration of Operation Condor," said
Martin Almada, a Paraguayan researcher who in 1992 uncovered do***ents
showing the existence of Operation Condor.

"Che Guevara left Corumba (a Brazilian town on the border with Bolivia)
under the false name of Oscar Ferreira," read the do***ent shown AFP.

Guevara had a beard and was sailing aboard the Victoria dos Palmares,
which was likely to arrive at dawn. The do***ent warned: "he is in
charge of a mission."

Almada, 70, was detained and tortured in the 1970s during the
dictator****p of Paraguay's General Alfredo Stroessner (1954-1989).

He was key in uncovering the "Archives of Horror," five tons of
paperwork that Paraguay's secret service abandoned after Stroessner was
toppled in 1989 that proved the existence of Operation Condor.

Almada said he only recently discovered the Che do***ent "because I
have many do***ents and have not finished examining them all."

Guevara, the iconic Argentine-born doctor-turned-guerrilla leader that
fought in the Cuban revolution, was convinced that armed tactics were
necessary to uproot the social and economic divide in Latin America. He
led a small clutch of rebels in Bolivia for 11 months trying to spread
revolution, but found little sup****t.

The Bolivian army and two Cuban-American US Central Intelligence Agency
agents captured Guevara in the village of La Higuera, and summarily
executed him on October 9, 1967. Guevara was 39.

The military governed Brazil from 1964 to 1985, Bolivia 1964-1982,
Uruguay 1973-1985, and Argentina 1966-1973 and again 1976-1983. Chile
came under military dictator****p from 1973-1990. 

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