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Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz

Died in 1980

Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz was born in Cochabamba on 13 March 1931. A journalist, he founded the daily El Sol, then sat as a deputy. Minister of Mines and Petroleum in 1969, he led the nationalisation of Gulf Oil. In 1971 he founded the Socialist Party and, from Parliament, worked to have the former dictator Hugo Banzer brought to trial. On 17 July 1980, the day of García Meza's coup d'état, he was abducted during a meeting at the headquarters of the Bolivian Workers' Centre, tortured and killed; his body has never been returned.

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