[R-G] CIA organization linked to plot against Evo Morales

[Anthony Fenton]

GRANMA INTERNATIONAL
Havana. May 15, 2009

Armando Valladares' CIA organization linked to plot against Evo Morales

Jean-Guy Allard

• THE Bolivian district attorney's office has identified Hugo Achá  
Melgar who, according to the AFP news agency, is Bolivia's  
representative to the U.S. Human Rights Foundation (HRF), as providing  
the bulk of the funds for the terrorist gang foiled in Santa Cruz  
while plotting to assassinate President Evo Morales.

The HRF is a New York-based nongovernmental organization known for its  
activities of interference and CIA links. Its general secretary,  
Armando Valladares is a terrorist of Cuban origin. District Attorney  
Marcelo Sosa, who is leading the investigation in this case,  
identified Achá, alias "Superman," along with Alejandro Melgar, "El  
Lucas," as being involved in and funding the plot.

In a statement to a La Paz television station, Achá – currently in the  
United States – rejected those charges but confessed that he had met  
with the killers' leader, Hungarian-Bolivian Eduardo Rózsa-Flores, on  
"four or five" occasions. The Rózsa-Flores terrorist group was  
dismantled in a Bolivian police operation a few weeks ago. Three of  
the mercenaries, among them the group's alleged leader, Eduardo Rózsa- 
Flores, died in a gun fight, while two others were arrested and are  
currently being detained in La Paz. The authorities subsequently  
captured two other conspirators, both members of the fascist  
organization Unión Juvenil Cruceñista, which provided the group with  
weapons.

A RECOUPED HUNGARIAN NEO-NAZI

Born in Bolivia, Eduardo Rózsa Flores, the Hungarian leader of the  
conspiracy to assassinate Evo Morales, belonged to circles of the  
Hungarian extreme right close to the Jobbik neo-Nazi party, which  
illegally maintains a paramilitary organization, the Hungarian Guard.

According to the Hungarian Spectrum website, he joined the Croatian  
army in the early 1990s, took part in various battles and was wounded  
three times. Suspected of trafficking arms and drugs, he left Croatia  
and returned to Hungary in 1994, where he collaborated with neo-Nazi  
groups.

Two of his accomplices also have biographies that end with their  
participation in extreme-right circles: Árpád Magyarosi, killed in the  
assault, and Elõd Tóásó, currently in detention, are both members of  
the Székely Légió, a paramilitary organization that plans commando  
attacks on Romania. Irishman Michael Martin Dwyer was a mercenary in  
the Balkans and possibly met the leader of the group in Croatia.

In Bolivia, Rózsa was in contact with Jorge Mones Ruiz, head of  
UnoAmerica, a fascist foundation linked to the CIA. According to EFE,  
one of the detainees of the Santa Cruz conspiracy, Juan Carlos Gueder,  
has already confessed to having met with Rózsa-Flores and accused  
Achá, whom, he said, should also "take responsibility."

Achá's accomplice, Alejandro "Lucas" Melgar, is currently in Uruguay,  
according to his family, to take part in a sport shooting tournament.

According to the district attorney's office, it was Melgar who  
contracted the owner of the vehicle with which Rósza, in an earlier  
attempt, dynamited the entrance to the house of Cardinal Julio  
Terrazas on April 14 in an act of provocation.

Workers in the four luxury hotels where the mercenaries were staying  
and employees of the Santa Cruz Telephone Cooperative are to be  
summoned by the district attorney.

Yesterday a key witness appeared in the 8th Criminal Hearings Court.  
He presented a video taped with a cellular telephone in which Rózsa- 
Flores speaks of his plot to assassinate President Evo Morales.

"POET," "PARALYTIC" AND CIA AGENT

Arrested in Havana in late 1960 for placing explosives in public  
places on CIA instructions, Armando Valladares won notoriety for his  
burlesque exit from jail, requested from abroad, disguised as a  
"paralytic poet." An informant for the Batista police, he later  
devoted himself to sabotage until his detention.

The only book that Valladares "wrote" was ironically titled "Desde mi  
silla de ruedas (From My Wheelchair)." It was actually written by his  
friend and accomplice Carlos Alberto Montaner. [Note: Allard describes  
the titles as "ironic" not just because it was written by someone  
else, but because Vallardes was faking his paralysis -- as hidden  
Cuban tv cameras in his cell had demonstrated. When confronted with  
videotapes of himself doing calisthenic exercises in his cell and told  
he could be released, as the French government had requested because  
of the campaign to "free the paralyzed imprisoned poet", only if he  
got up and walked out of his cell, onto and off of the plane that took  
him to France, he did so. Imagine the embarrassment of the welcoming  
committee waiting for him at Orly Airport, Paris with a wheelchair  
when he went bounding off the plane on his own two feet. klw]

When he arrived in the United States, Vall adares made himself  
available to the U.S. intelligence community with extreme servility,  
and was appointed ambassador to Geneva by the ultra-right President  
Ronald Reagan.

Via his Human Rights Foundation, Valladares published a report on the  
human rights situation in Bolivia last October, in which he condemned  
the "political violence" in that country.

According to the Venezuelan lawyer and researcher Eva Golinger, author  
of La Teleraña Imperial (The Imperial Web), the Human Rights  
Foundation was created by Thor Halvorssen Mendoza in 2005 to attack  
and discredit the Venezuelan, Bolivian and Ecuadorian governments. The  
son of one of Venezuela's wealthiest families Halvorssen worked with  
the CIA in El Salvador and Nicaragua.

On May 4, 2008, Valladares the CIA agent volunteered himself as an  
observer for the illegal referendum in Santa Cruz on behalf of his  
organization.•