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Morales assassins: Bolivia gang "fought in Balkans" - Magda Hassan - 22-04-2009 At last a bit of information of the employer of the Irishman. Dwyer in Bolivia on 'training course' CONOR LALLY, Crime CorrespondentMichael Dwyer, the 24-year-old Co Tipperary man shot dead by police in Bolivia, travelled to the country from Ireland last November with a group of up to 17 people, The Irish Times has learned. Sources closes to the Dwyer family have said Mr Dwyer told them he was going to Bolivia for a three-month training course linked to his work in the security industry. He suggested to the family he was going to Bolivia at the behest of an employer here. However, it has now emerged he paid for his own flights to Bolivia and there is no information at this point to suggest he was in the country doing a course for a company. Mr Dwyer’s family are now trying to contact some of the Irish people the dead man travelled to Bolivia with. It appears Mr Dwyer broke away from the group and took up local work. Shortly after arriving in Bolivia Mr Dwyer posted photographs on his Bebo site of himself in the country with other people with a Caucasian appearance. He had worked for at least two Irish security companies before he travelled to South America at the end of last year. He had been employed on a part-time basis with Integrated Risk Management Services (IRMS). They are a well-known company based in Naas, Co Kildare, headed by a former member of the Army Ranger Wing. The company has been best-known in recent years as the security provider to Shell at its controversial Corrib gas pipeline project in Co Mayo. It is unclear if Mr Dwyer worked at the Shell site in Co Mayo, but a number of local sources said they believed he had worked there for a period. When contacted, a spokesman at the company declined to confirm any details of Mr Dwyer’s employment. The spokesman said Mr Dwyer’s family had asked for privacy and IRMS wanted to respect their wishes. However, The Irish Times understands Mr Dwyer last worked for IRMS in the first half of last year. When his contract expired, he then left the company. A source close to the company said he was not working for IRMS when he went to Bolivia and that the company had never sent anybody to Bolivia. Mr Dwyer also worked for a now-defunct company in Oranmore, Co Galway, called Praetorian Security. It was one of the biggest firms in Ireland, supplying security to pubs and nightclubs. Last June, the Private Security Authority suspended its licence over failure to meet all its tax compliance obligations. The dead man had also trained as bodyguard. Mr Dwyer worked part-time as a pub security guard while he was studying construction management in Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology. When he graduated last year, he worked in security full-time in Ireland before travelling to Bolivia at the end of last year. It appears that while in Bolivia Mr Dwyer was offered security work by Eduardo Rózsa Flores, a Bolivian with Croat nationality who grew up in Hungary. The 49-year-old was killed with Mr Dwyer in a Santa Cruz hotel last Thursday. A veteran of the Balkans conflict, he has been described as the leader of the group of alleged mercenaries the Bolivians say were plotting to kill their president, Evo Morales. The nature of Mr Dwyer’s work, and what the group were doing in Santa Cruz, remains unclear. A third man killed in the incident last week was today identified as a Romanian citizen. The Romanian Foreign Ministry said it had received official confirmation that one of those shot was a Romanian citizen, but had received no clarification from Bolivia on the circumstances of his death. It declined to name him. Mr Dwyer's parents said tonight that they hoped an inquiry into his death would clear his name. In an interview with RTÉ news, Martin and Caroline Dwyer dismissed suggestions that their son had been involved in a plot to kill the president of Bolivia. “It’s absolutely ridiculous. There’s no way Michael was ever involved in anything like that,” Mrs Dwyer said. Mr Dwyer said he was disgusted that pictures of his son's body appeared in newspapers after his death. He said Michael would not have been capable of taking part in a shoot-out with state security forces. “We spoke to Michael Martin ourselves yesterday, he phoned, and we said that to him, that we would like to have some answers, whatever they could come up with. “I think it’s a good idea having an inquiry. Hopefully something will come out of it then, to try and clear his name.” http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0421/breaking30.html?via=mr ***************************************************** Of course, Bolivia is one of the very few places in the world which offer bodyguard courses. Irishman planned to take part in bodyguard course CONOR LALLYMIKE DWYER travelled to Bolivia from Ireland with a number of men who returned home when a bodyguard course they had expected to attend did not take place. However, Mr Dwyer stayed on in the country. Mr Dwyer’s family said yesterday they believed he travelled to Bolivia from Ireland with 15 people. The Irish Times understands the 24-year-old left Dublin in November, and flew to Madrid. From Spain he flew to the Bolivian capital, La Paz, with three companions he had worked with in Ireland. It is unclear when the other 11 men who the Dwyer family believe were in the party went to Bolivia. Sources who knew Mr Dwyer said the three men they were certain he travelled with were not Irish. Two were Hungarian and one was a Polish national. One of these men knew Eduardo Rozsa Flores, the 49-year-old man killed with Mr Dwyer in Bolivia last week and whom the authorities there described as the leader of the group. One source said he believed Mr Dwyer may have met Flores in Bolivia through their mutual Hungarian friend. The three men Mr Dwyer flew to Bolivia with came back to Ireland when they realised the bodyguard course they had travelled to participate in was not going to take place. One source described it as a “course that never was”. “They spent most of their time by a lake and canoeing – that kind of thing. Two of them changed their tickets and came home early, and the other guy waited a few weeks and came home on his original ticket. Michael was having a good time and he stayed on out there.” After remaining on in Bolivia, it is understood that Mr Dwyer was employed as a security guard or bodyguard by Mr Flores. The exact nature of what they were doing is not clear. The Bolivian authorities have claimed they were mercenaries attempting to kill President Evo Morales. Mr Dwyer and the three men he travelled with are believed to have paid their own airfares to Madrid. One source who spoke to The Irish Times said he believed the four tickets on to La Paz were paid for by a separate party but he did not know who this was. All of the four had previously worked for a security firm based in Naas, Co Kildare, called Integrated Risk Management Services Ltd (I-RMS). It is best known for having provided security at Shell’s controversial Corrib gas pipeline in Co Mayo in recent years. The contracts of many security workers at the Mayo site expired last October because security was scaled back when construction ceased. Mr Dwyer and the three men he travelled to Bolivia with were out of work in October and decided to go to Bolivia the next month for the bodyguard course. I-RMS confirmed in a statement to The Irish Times that Mr Dwyer had worked for the company. It said he was employed as a security guard at the Corrib gas construction site from March to mid-October last year after answering a Fás employment advert. I-RMS said he had been working as a pub doorman when he joined them. The firm hired him after a full Garda check and after examining his Private Security Authority of Ireland licence. The statement described him as a “focused student” who worked to pay his way through college at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, from which he graduated as a construction engineer. His employment ended with them on October 20th last. There is no suggestion whatever that I-RMS organised the men’s trip to Bolivia. Morales assassins: Bolivia gang "fought in Balkans" - Jan Klimkowski - 22-04-2009 Magda Hassan Wrote:Of course, Bolivia is one of the very few places in the world which offer bodyguard courses. It's also supposedly a great place to make ethnographic studies of French music.... :flute::flute: Of course, if I wanted to conduct some genuine anthropology in Bolivia, I'd be looking to observe the Lesser Spotted Neo-Nazi with a mystical interest in Thule and an ability to goosestep whilst flying a Swastika-daubed flag ... Morales assassins: Bolivia gang "fought in Balkans" - David Guyatt - 23-04-2009 I much like the last words of the last Inca in your sig line Jan. Now back to this most interesting thread... Morales assassins: Bolivia gang "fought in Balkans" - Jan Klimkowski - 23-04-2009 David Guyatt Wrote:I much like the last words of the last Inca in your sig line Jan. Thanks, and it's highly appropriate for this thread. Atahualpa, one of the two Inka Emperors when the Spanish arrived, was also a victim of the dogs of war and men of god. Fearful of Atahualpa's power over the indigenous people of the Andes, the conquistador Pizarro staged a mock trial and sentenced Atahualpa to execution by burning. Atahualpa believed his soul could not travel to the afterlife if his body was burned. So a priest, who had been trying to persuade Atahualpa to convert, told the Inka Emperor that if he was baptized into the Catholic faith, the sentence would be commuted. In such a way, Friar Vincente de Valverde, notorious for his Inka slaves, claimed the soul of "Juan Santos Atahualpa" for the Catholic Church. In 1533, almost immediately after the baptism, the Inka Atahualpa was garotted. Around 1540, after the first "Spanish Conquest", the Inka staged a second rebellion based around the religious centre of Vilcabamba. In 1572, the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, raised in the Inka religion, was eventually trapped with his pregnant wife by conquistadors. Tupac Amaru was assured that no harm would come to him if he and his party surrendered. Instead, the captive Tupac Amaru was paraded through the sacred streets of Cuzco with a gold chain around his neck. The conquistadors also paraded the holy mallqui (mummies) of the Inka Emperors Manco Capac and Titu Cusi and a gold statue of Punchao, a representation of the Inkan lineage containing the mortal remains of the hearts of the deceased Inkas. Tupac Amaru was baptized into Catholicism, then subjected to a mock trial. Quote:An eyewitness report from the day recalls that Tupac Amaru was led through the streets of Cuzco between Father Alonso de Baranza and Father Molina, who instructed him for the benefit of his soul. Vega Laoiza has him riding a mule with hands tied behind his back and a rope around his neck. Gabriel Oviedo and Baltasar de Ocampo report great crowds and the Inca surrounded by 400 guards with lances. In front of the main cathedral in the central square of Cuzco a black-draped scaffold had been erected. The plaza was so densely crowded for the spectacle that the chief officer of the court rode down many people to clear a path. Reportedly 10,000 to 15,000 witnesses were present. The Inka were faced with "a new kind of human being who waged war à outrance, inspired by a terrifying religion which enabled them to use treachery, hypocrisy, cruelty, torture, and massacre in the name of a God of Love" (Hyams & Ordish). Ultimately, the people of the Andes from Ecuador to Bolivia decided to pretend to obey the foreigners, the men of god and the dogs of war, the landlords and mineowners who worked them to death. They decided to wait them out, preserving their indigenous culture in secret places. Four and a half centuries later, the enemy and the war has not changed. "Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta." Morales assassins: Bolivia gang "fought in Balkans" - Jan Klimkowski - 23-04-2009 A little more history from the margins..... Quote:Túpac Katari (also Túpaj Katari) (c. 1750 – 15 November 1781), born Julián Apasa, was a leader in the rebellions of indigenous people in Bolivia in the early 1780s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BApac_Katari Quote:The Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army (Ejército Guerrillero Túpac Katari) is an indigenous guerrilla movement in Bolivia. The organization descends directly from the original revolutionaries trained by Che Guevara in the 1960s. Their objective is to fight for social equality in Bolivia and amongst its indigenous population. They carried out their first attack on July 5, 1991, destroying an electric power pylon in El Alto, a suburb of La Paz. Most of their attacks have been similarly small-scale. The group has confined its activities to Bolivia. The group suffered a major setback in a crackdown in 1992 when much of its leadership was neutralized through incarceration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupac_Katari_Guerrilla_Army Morales assassins: Bolivia gang "fought in Balkans" - Jan Klimkowski - 23-04-2009 I can't find a whitewash smiley, so the following will have to suffice for this pathetic piece in the Irish Times: Quote:Wild journey ends for Eduardo Flores, 'soldier and guerrilla' http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0420/1224245021517.html?via=rel Morales assassins: Bolivia gang "fought in Balkans" - Paul Rigby - 23-04-2009 Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Former acquaintances in Budapest say Flores found work as a journalist and correspondent’s assistant for the BBC’s Spanish-language service and Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia , which took him to former Yugoslavia as it descended into war in the early 1990s. Where the Aginter Press left off, the BBC/MI6 carried on...our licence fee at work, fellow mugs! PS For those unfamiliar with the former, a brief intro: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aginter_Press Morales assassins: Bolivia gang "fought in Balkans" - Jan Klimkowski - 23-04-2009 Interview today with Pres Evo Morales. Teaser quotes: When asked about a secessionist movement in Santa Cruz (ie Camba Nation etc): Quote:It’s not Santa Cruz. It’s some families in Santa Cruz..... Now, speaking of autonomy, the national government is going to guarantee autonomy for the peoples, not autonomy for the small elite cliques. More broadly: Quote:I have no reason to get involved in the internal politics of the United States. I very much respect that there are democratic elections and primary elections within each party, Democratic and Republican. I fully respect that, and similarly, I would hope that they not meddle in Bolivia. Rosza Flores' hit squad failed in Bolivia. Morales is currently in New York. I hope he's got his Secret Service with him, checking for any Operation Condor attempts by thugs like Michael Townley to blow up his limo. (Of course Pinochet's neo-fascist Chile "extradited" Townley to the US who freed him under the, ahem, "witness protection programme". Nothing to see here. Move along.) Quote:JUAN GONZALEZ: Bolivian President Evo Morales opened this week’s UN Forum on Indigenous Issues. An Aymara Indian, Evo Morales became the country’s first indigenous president when he was elected two-and-a-half years ago with more popular support than any Bolivian leader in decades. During his keynote address, President Morales raised criticism about the impact of climate change on indigenous peoples, especially the use of biofuels and how it was affecting world hunger. http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/24/welcome_to_the_axis_of_evil Morales assassins: Bolivia gang "fought in Balkans" - David Guyatt - 24-04-2009 Paul Rigby Wrote:Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Former acquaintances in Budapest say Flores found work as a journalist and correspondent’s assistant for the BBC’s Spanish-language service and Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia , which took him to former Yugoslavia as it descended into war in the early 1990s. I'm sure that Magda already has the Aginter Press down for inclusion in mher truly excellent "Players, Organization and events of Deep Politics" which would be a worthy inclusion imo. I seem to recall that Robin's LOBSTER has some relevant material on this outfit too... Morales assassins: Bolivia gang "fought in Balkans" - Magda Hassan - 24-04-2009 I do indeed David. There was that other multi-cultural and geographically mobile fascist dog of war Stefano Delle Chiaie involved in those operations. It is still a work in progress but feel free to add to it. |