Word: quiroga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democracy (CONADE) called an emergency meeting in La Paz and ordered a general strike and road blockades in protest. At noon, before that meeting had ended, ambulances arrived at the meeting place and heavily armed paramilitary personnel jumped out, broke in, and arrested everyone present. Several, most notably Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, the Socialist president candidate, were killed on the spot...
...Bolivian University students who attended the meeting and subsequently escaped compiled a written description of the events. An excerpt describes Quiroga's assassination...
When we arrived to the ground floor, one of the fascists recognized Marcelo Quiroga and ordered that the others move on and that Quiroga be led to another room. Obviously, they had orders to kill him then and there, and wanted to do it without witnesses. Marcelo objected to being separated and grabbed the banister. It took two men to pull him away, but as they were doing so, another shot Quiroga at point black range in the chest with a submachine...