PARAGUAYAN SECRET POLICE COVERED UP FORCED DISAPPEARANCE OF FOUR YOUNG PEOPLE IN 1976
Edited by Carlos Osorio Washington D.C, December 21, 2008 - A document from the Archive of Terror in Paraguay revealed today confirms that the Chief of the Secret Police tried to cover up the disappearance of Amilcar Oviedo, Carlos Mancuello, Benjamin Ramirez Villalba and Rodolfo Ramirez Villalba on September 21, 1976. Posted today for the first time on the Web site of the National Security Archive, a note from Commissary Eliodoro Sánchez reported that "THERE IS NO NEWS WORTH MENTIONING," emphatically contradicting the Chief of Investigations (D-3) Pastor Coronel who reported that the four missing youth had escaped on that night. "The discovery of the report without news from a high ranking official at the D-3 contradicts the story that there had been an escape and is evidence that the police tried to conceal the forced disappearance of the four young men," declared Alfredo Boccia, researcher and author, together with other collaborators, of the first ...