The assassination of a Trotskyist leader

Workers Press no. 23, 29 October 1969 · scan page 3

Topics: Fourth International and the ICFI, Leon Trotsky, Latin America

Title, by-line and extent checked against the scan: pdf 3 lower band: Hugo Camacho's letter to Arguedas with Guillermo Lora's covering letter; separated from the Smithfield article 17 Oct 2026. The text is still machine-read, in the order the machine read the columns; for anything you quote, read the scan.

PUBLISHED here is a letter sent to Antonio Arguedas, Bolivian ex-minister of the interior, by Hugo Camacho, concerning the fate of his brother, the Trotskyist leader Isaac Camacho. Arguedas was responsible for Isaac We are also publishing a letter on the same subject written by Guillermo Lora, general secretary of the Trotskyist Workers' Revolutionary Party of Bolivia-whose brother was Mr President, I am sending you a copy of the letter sent to Mr Antonio Arguedas by Hugo Camacho. My party is in solidarity with the text of the letter and underlines the responsibility of the still perfectly functioning apparatus of repression installed in the Ministry of the Interior by the CÍA for the cowardly assassination of this union leader The aim of this letter is to request that the intelligence service agents in the Ministry explain the circumstances under which Isaac Camacho disappeared.

also a victim of reaction. and well known political figure.

A savage policeman and trying to pass as a man of thi written, a coup has brought a power.

The generals change; the savage repression of the militant Trotskyists of the RWP and those who, through constant struggle, embody the interests of the Bolivian workers and poor peasants does not change. his class and having been an eyewitness to the assassination of Cesar Lora, was arrested at Siglo XX [the most concentrated mining area in Bolivia and a principal base of the WRP] in July 1967 by military elements of the DIC [political police under the control of the CIA].

After having been brutally tortured by the second bureau of the army [directed by the CIA] at Oruro, he passed under the jurisdiction of the Minister of the Interior [Arguedas]; it is sufficient to say that he was put in your hands.

You informed the press on August 9, 1967, that Camacho had gone into exile in the direction of Argentina.

Using your agents in the union ranks and political informers, you then laid a series of false trails to hide the tragic fate of the incorruptible leader of the northern miners' union.

The Camacho family and the WRP leadership have patiently gathered together the proof that all the information you gave was entirely false.

At this point it is my duty Camacho died under torture, in a the city of La Paz.

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