Juan José Torres person
also: ex-President Torres, General Juan Jose Torres, General Torres, Jose Torres, Torres
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Claims (5)
Alfredo Ovando Candía removed_from_power
Juan José Torres documented
“But then it seems someone got to Ovando with an offer he couldn't refuse. Slowly but surely, the president drifted towards the CIA. Amongst other indications, several anti-U.S. student demonstrations were firmly put down by the police. Noth…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975 @ 1:02:00
Hugo Banzer attempted_coup_against
Juan José Torres documented
“You know, like all of those presidents ago, because we've already had like two or three more coups. In January 1971, Colonel Banzer led a coup attempt, which came to nothing except his own exile to Argentina. The CIA had known of Banzer's p…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975 @ 1:05:19
Hugo Banzer overthrew
Juan José Torres book_quoted
“of the operation has to be assessed at tremendously high because if they're deaf and they can't hear each other, you know that it would have been another dismal failure. One week later, the San Francisco Chronicle, quote, although it has be…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Bolivia 1964-1975 @ 1:07:20
Operation Condor assassinated
Juan José Torres documented
“Jose Torres of Bolivia in Argentina, Uruguayan politicians Hector Gutierrez Ruiz, Zalmer Michellini, also in Argentina, Bolivia's General Joaquim Zenteno Aña, and Uruguay's Colonel Ramon Trabal in Paris.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 14 @ 7:20
Joaquin Zenteno Aña relationship_with
Juan José Torres documented
“The Skorzeny Paladin Company. Oh, so it was a Gladio hit. Also, inspection of Zenteno Aña's politics revealed his opposition to Bolivian President Banzer and allegiance to ex-President Torres, whose murder in Argentina followed shortly afte…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Heroin Coup Part 14 @ 3:15
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But then it seems someone got to Ovando with an offer he couldn't refuse. Slowly but surely, the president drifted towards the CIA. Amongst other indications, several anti-U.S. student demonstrations were firmly put down by the police. Noth…
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Whatever label, there was indeed a fresh political conflict in Bolivia. Two weeks later, it erupted into a military revolt. General Ovando was out and General Torres was in. Ovando had lasted one year. Juan Jose Torres, 10 months in office,…
▶ 1:03:25
officials see red his overtures towards friendship with alande's chile because alande was still in power at the time and remember the cia overthrows him for peniche in chile and castro's cuba increased ties with the soviet union nationalizi…
▶ 1:05:19
You know, like all of those presidents ago, because we've already had like two or three more coups. In January 1971, Colonel Banzer led a coup attempt, which came to nothing except his own exile to Argentina. The CIA had known of Banzer's p…
▶ 1:05:48
into Bolivia where he had close contacts with U.S. Major Robert London, L-U-N-D-I-N, who was the U.S. advisor to the Bolivian Air Force School in Santa Cruz. Next, the coup that succeeded took place in August, a few days after Torres had an…
▶ 1:07:20
of the operation has to be assessed at tremendously high because if they're deaf and they can't hear each other, you know that it would have been another dismal failure. One week later, the San Francisco Chronicle, quote, although it has be…
▶ 3:15
The Skorzeny Paladin Company. Oh, so it was a Gladio hit. Also, inspection of Zenteno Aña's politics revealed his opposition to Bolivian President Banzer and allegiance to ex-President Torres, whose murder in Argentina followed shortly afte…
▶ 6:48
He testified to the use of Condor as a channel by which the Chilean DINA, thanks to the CIA, Chief General Manuel Contreras, tried to get U.S. visas for two of the agents involved. An impressive list of murders may now be laid at the door o…