René Barrientos Ortuño person
also: General Rene Barantos Artuno, R-T-U-N-O, Barrientos, Bariatos, Bariantos, Barriantos, Barianto, Barrianto, Barrio, Rene Barriantos, General Rene, Baratentos, Barastanos, Barantinos
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Claims (11)
René Barrientos Ortuño ordered_assassination_of
Che Guevara documented
“200 years. They just don't believe you. They've lost all hope. And Shea coming to try to help them in Bolivia, he saw the same look that he saw when he was in the Congo trying to help those people against the Gladio operations of Otto Skorz…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975 @ 55:07
CIA funded
René Barrientos Ortuño book_quoted
“A natural as American financial contributors to Barrientos, Antonio Argudas, A-R-G-U-E-D-A-S, who was the minister of interior under Barrientos, later disclosed that the CIA had contributed $600,000 to the Bolivian leader in 1966 when he de…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975 @ 41:55
Gulf Oil funded
René Barrientos Ortuño book_quoted
“parties received lesser sums. Our goddess, our Judas, was an admitted agent of the CIA. In 1968, he gave the world Che Guevara's diary, claiming that the agency had pushed him too hard. Also revealed that Gulf Oil donated $200,000 to Barrio…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975 @ 42:26
René Barrientos Ortuño targeted_for_regime_change
Víctor Paz Estenssoro host_asserted
“reproaching the president and the MNR, particularly when they criticized the military or by throwing his support to anti-government groups. These tactics served to show up the president's weakness and succeeded in rallying Barrientos aside …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975 @ 36:46
René Barrientos Ortuño carried_out_attack
1964 Bolivian coup d'état host_asserted
“But some of them didn't get a choice. The man who led the coup in November of 1964 and replaced Paz, P-A-Z, was the Vice President General Rene Barantos Artuno, R-T-U-N-O.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975 @ 10:24
Edward Fox trained
René Barrientos Ortuño host_asserted
“But Barrientos, the former commander of the Air Force, had a very close relationship with both the CIA and the Pentagon. And his basic point of contact, if you will, for the U.S. was a guy by the name of Colonel Edward Fox, F-O-X. And Fox w…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975 @ 11:49
208 Committee funded
René Barrientos Ortuño book_quoted
“Barracentos Fortuno, a vice president in the coalition, launched a military coup that swept away the democratically elected president. Two months later, the 303 committee approved more cash for the military coup leader. Records indicate tha…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 14:49
208 Committee funded
René Barrientos Ortuño book_quoted
“In the face of political opposition, Baratentos jailed opponents and canceled elections. Gee, that seems like a pattern. The 303 committee nevertheless authorized even more money in July of 1965 and even more money in March of 1966 before a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 15:21
Douglas Henderson tried_to_convince
René Barrientos Ortuño book_quoted
“tried to convince Barastanos that Che Guevara captured, he would be brought to the capital for interrogation. Barastanos demurred, afraid of the unrest that could accompany Che's arrival, captive or not. When the moment came, Tilton was on …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 29:03
René Barrientos Ortuño refused
Douglas Henderson book_quoted
“tried to convince Barastanos that Che Guevara captured, he would be brought to the capital for interrogation. Barastanos demurred, afraid of the unrest that could accompany Che's arrival, captive or not. When the moment came, Tilton was on …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30) @ 29:03
Víctor Paz Estenssoro appointed
René Barrientos Ortuño host_asserted
“Ten days later, after the mysterious incident, the president dumped Fortune, replaced him with Bariantos, and went on to his re-election. Bariantos himself later conceded that without the silver bullet, or magic bullet as others dubbed it, …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975 @ 35:04
Mentions (32)
▶ 10:24
But some of them didn't get a choice. The man who led the coup in November of 1964 and replaced Paz, P-A-Z, was the Vice President General Rene Barantos Artuno, R-T-U-N-O.…
▶ 11:49
But Barrientos, the former commander of the Air Force, had a very close relationship with both the CIA and the Pentagon. And his basic point of contact, if you will, for the U.S. was a guy by the name of Colonel Edward Fox, F-O-X. And Fox w…
▶ 29:25
then maybe in the off chance all of that happens, which it happens every single time, we may have to move in. It's ridiculous. And this is written by a U.S. military officer. I mean, it makes you want to throw up. Also unknown at, it was un…
▶ 29:59
Paz, because Paz has decided he's not going to interfere with the mine strike and he's, you know, he's opening communications with other people. So, you know, that's dead man walking for the CIA. And so what the author points out is there w…
▶ 30:27
that the role played by the CIA and the Pentagon in obtaining that office for Bariatos was important. So you have the MNR's convention in January 1964. Paz sidestepped Bariatos, who had made his candidacy known and chose a civilian by the n…
▶ 30:53
Fortune, F-O-R-T-U-N, to be his running mate. Barrientos proved to be a bad loser. He declared publicly that the nomination was a mistake and continued politicking, finally compelling the president to ask for his resignation as chief of the…
▶ 31:20
A few days later, however, a scenario began to unfold which grabbed Bariantos from the edge of the abyss. On the evening of February 25th, there supposedly took place a shooting attempt on Bariantos' life. Some accounts have him near death.…
▶ 31:45
that he was moved by military vehicle to the airport and then flown in a U.S. Air Force plane to an American hospital in the Panama Canal zone, which happened to be 2,000 miles away. No Bolivian doctor ever examined Barriantos. So what they…
▶ 32:13
while Barriantos was still in the hospital, supposedly, undergoing a lengthy operation, he was portrayed by the co-opted press in Bolivia, which we've already talked about, as a national hero and sacrificing himself on behalf of his country…
▶ 32:42
a periodical called El Dario, an influential, strongly anti-pa's newspaper. And according to later testimony of a member of Barrianto's new cabinet, some of the newspaper staff actually was paid for by the CIA. Shocker. Moreover, this newsp…
▶ 33:40
So after the coup, he just miraculously happens to come up on the short list of minister of economics and eventually gets appointed as a Bolivian ambassador to Washington, D.C. It's just magic the way that happens. The press coverage includ…
▶ 34:33
This came from a historian in Bolivia. Hinted publicly that Paz's police had been responsible for the alleged attack. Strong pressures from other high officers as well was exerted upon Paz to vindicate both himself and Barriantos by belated…
▶ 35:04
Ten days later, after the mysterious incident, the president dumped Fortune, replaced him with Bariantos, and went on to his re-election. Bariantos himself later conceded that without the silver bullet, or magic bullet as others dubbed it, …
▶ 35:25
His eight months as a candidate and as vice president in office served in turn to tie up all the loose ends required for the military to return from their 12-year hiatus and former skeleton staff to stage their coup with a minimum of opposi…
▶ 36:18
to get us to buy back into feeling sorry for them. That's basically what they just did here. So Barrientos also denounced all of the militias to include the ones that were guarding the mines and called for their disillusionment. He also too…
▶ 36:46
reproaching the president and the MNR, particularly when they criticized the military or by throwing his support to anti-government groups. These tactics served to show up the president's weakness and succeeded in rallying Barrientos aside …
▶ 37:10
It appears that little, if anything, further was heard of Barrianto's injury, although during the period that he miraculously escaped, several other reported assassination attempts, including a bomb which blew up his car when no one was in …
▶ 39:18
would report, quote, has still insisted that Fox was behind his ouster. That's the colonel, the U.S. Air Force colonel. Among Bolivians with an awareness of politics, it is hard to find anyone who disagrees, unquote. So Rene Barriantos pres…
▶ 41:55
A natural as American financial contributors to Barrientos, Antonio Argudas, A-R-G-U-E-D-A-S, who was the minister of interior under Barrientos, later disclosed that the CIA had contributed $600,000 to the Bolivian leader in 1966 when he de…
▶ 42:26
parties received lesser sums. Our goddess, our Judas, was an admitted agent of the CIA. In 1968, he gave the world Che Guevara's diary, claiming that the agency had pushed him too hard. Also revealed that Gulf Oil donated $200,000 to Barrio…
▶ 42:57
around the province. Gulf Oil Corporation subsequently admitted that it had paid Bolivian officials, mainly Barrientos, a total of almost half a million dollars in political contributions from 66 to 69 at the CIA's recommendation, although …
▶ 55:56
Because every word he said would have been revealing the CIA's inner workings of every operation in Latin and Central America, period. Or, excuse me, in Central and South America. He knew everything. He knew everything about the Congo. The …
▶ 56:27
um that was in charge he ends up dying in 1969 in a gulf helicopter crash which is kind of weird isn't that the kind of that aircraft that um iran's president just died in um huh i forgot about that part um for us so understand…
▶ 57:52
Following the death of Rene Barriantos in the helicopter crash, Bolivia's statesmen soon reverted to their normal machinations, beginning with the vice president who succeeded Barriantos lasted five months before being ousted by another gen…
▶ 14:12
the quote unquote leftist one anyway, but not by a lot. The MNR, which was basically a movement for national revolutionaries. That's what the MNR stood for. That was the American favorites. In November, 1964, General Rene,…
▶ 14:49
Barracentos Fortuno, a vice president in the coalition, launched a military coup that swept away the democratically elected president. Two months later, the 303 committee approved more cash for the military coup leader. Records indicate tha…
▶ 15:21
In the face of political opposition, Baratentos jailed opponents and canceled elections. Gee, that seems like a pattern. The 303 committee nevertheless authorized even more money in July of 1965 and even more money in March of 1966 before a…
▶ 18:57
and afraid to engage. Che Guevara's Bolivian diaries repeatedly note peasants were terrified, terrorized, because of what the government was doing to them. Tactical errors abound too. Che Guevara knew much less about the wilderness where he…
▶ 20:36
Barrientos called in Ambassador Henderson and handed him a request for U.S. supplies. On April 28th, the Bolivian military signed an agreement with the U.S. mission to permit a special forces mobile training team to train the Bolivian 2nd R…
▶ 28:32
company captured Shea Calvera. The guerrilla commander, wounded in the leg, could not flee. With the notorious Shea in custody, the immediate issue for the CIA became obtaining intelligence. Here, the agency's interests clashed with the Bol…
▶ 29:03
tried to convince Barastanos that Che Guevara captured, he would be brought to the capital for interrogation. Barastanos demurred, afraid of the unrest that could accompany Che's arrival, captive or not. When the moment came, Tilton was on …
▶ 36:22
and installed Batista. And they haven't installed a democratically elected president in any of their coups. The agency supported the Cuban exiles, but the CIA had also supported Batista. And no one had elected him either. Nor were Joseph Mu…