Name Zelmar Michelini Role Reporter | Children Rafael Michelini | |
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Assassinated May 20, 1976, Buenos Aires, Argentina Similar People Rafael Michelini, Liber Seregni, Hugo Batalla, Alba Roballo, Enrique Erro | ||
Discurso zelmar michelini en la apertura del tribunal russell ii
Zelmar Michelini (20 May 1924, Montevideo, Uruguay – 20 May 1976, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a Uruguayan reporter and politician, assassinated in Buenos Aires in 1976 as part of Operation Condor.
Contents
- Discurso zelmar michelini en la apertura del tribunal russell ii
- Recordamos a hector gutierrez ruiz y zelmar michelini a 40 anos de su asesinato
- Career
- Death
- References
Recordamos a hector gutierrez ruiz y zelmar michelini a 40 anos de su asesinato
Career
Zelmar Michelini was member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1954–58, and then of the Chamber of Senators starting in 1966. He was Minister of the Industry under Oscar Gestido's presidency (Colorado Party), before renouncing in 1970 due to disagreements with the government's policies. At that time, he left the conservative Colorado Party to participate, alongside other left-wing parties (Communist and Socialist Party and other independent left-wing groups), in the foundation of the Frente Amplio ("Broad Front") coalition in 1971. A reporter at the newspaper Acción, he also founded in the 1960s the weekly Hechos. Michelini again became senator in 1971, as a member of the Frente Amplio. However, he had exiled himself to Buenos Aires after the 1973 coup and started denouncing the human rights violations committed by Bordaberry's dictatorship.
Death
Michelini was abducted on 18 May 1976 by a paramilitary group. He was tortured and shot; his body was discovered on 21 May in an abandoned Torino sedan, at the corner of Perito Moreno and Dellepiane in Buenos Aires. Three other bodies were found in the car – Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, former Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay, and two Tupamaros militants, William Whitelaw and Rosario del Carmen Barredo, all of whom had also been tortured before they were killed.
Judge Roberto Timbal put former dictator Bordaberry and former Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Blanco Estradé under preventive detention on 16 November 2006, for having orchestrated the murders. Uruguayan police officer Hugo Campos has also been suspected of being responsible.