El asesinato de Juan José Torres

by Martín Sivak

"First work of investigative journalism about the murder of Gen. Juan José Torres González, former de facto president of Bolivia. Torres was kidnapped and murdered in Buenos Aires in June 1976, presumably by members of an Argentine hit squad with links to the then military governments of Argentina and Bolivia. Concludes that conspiracy involved then Bolivian president Hugo Banzer Suárez; his cousin Eduardo Banzer, who was serving as Bolivian consul in Buenos Aires; Albano Harguindeguy, then Argentina's Interior Minister; members of Gen. Pinochet's Chilean intelligence service; and a host of other characters. Author interviewed over 60 people in Argentina, Bolivia, and Uruguay. If account is correct, investigation presents a very serious indictment of intelligence sharing by Argentine, Bolivian, and Chilean dictators in order to eliminate opposition"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.