Hugo Campos Hermida (September 27, 1928 – November 24, 2001) was a
Uruguay
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an
police officer
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.
Background
Hermida also received training in the United States, including from the
Drug Enforcement Administration
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.
Significant roles
He has been accused with other Uruguayans in participating in the
Argentine detention center ''
Automotores Orletti'', a clandestine holding area during the "
Dirty War
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" in Argentina which was also used in the frame of
Operation Condor
Operation Condor ( es, link=no, Operación Cóndor, also known as ''Plan Cóndor''; pt, Operação Condor) was a United States–backed campaign of political repression and state terror involving intelligence operations and assassination of op ...
. According to a document published by ''
La República
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'' newspaper, Campos Hermida was responsible for Senator
Zelmar Michelini and deputy
Héctor Gutiérrez's deaths in 1976 in Buenos Aires.
[A los 73 años murió el inspector mayor (r) Hugo Campos Hermida]
The Argentine poet
Juan Gelman
Juan Gelman (3 May 1930 – 14 January 2014) was an Argentine poet. He published more than twenty books of poetry between 1956 and his death in early 2014. He was a naturalized citizen of Mexico, country where he arrived as a political exile of th ...
also denounced him in his complaint before the Spanish justice for the "
disappearance" of his niece in Uruguay.
[
Repeated extradition requests from the Argentine government remained futile. The Uruguayan government provided amnesty in 1986 to military and police personnel who violated human rights during the previous military regimes.]Tupamaros
The Tupamaros – National Liberation Movement ( es, Movimiento de Liberación Nacional – Tupamaros, MLN-T), widely known as Tupamaros, was a Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla group in Uruguay in the 1960s and 1970s. The MLN-T is inextricab ...
, Raúl Sendic
Raúl Sendic Antonaccio (16 March 1926 – 28 April 1989) was a Uruguayan Marxist lawyer, trade unionist and founder of the Tupamaros National Liberation Movement (MLN-T).
Early life and education
Born in a rural area, near the village of Jua ...
, on August 31, 1972, as well as on the events of 14 April 1972 during which current senator Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro
Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro (March 14, 1942 – August 5, 2016) was an Uruguayan politician, journalist, and writer. He was popularly known as "El Ñato". A former member of the National Liberation Movement (Tupamaros) (MLN-T), he was in priso ...
was detained while the Martinera couple was killed in the Amazonas street in Montevideo.[
]
See also
* Politics of Uruguay
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References
External links
A los 73 años murió el inspector mayor (r) Hugo Campos Hermida
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1928 births
2001 deaths
Uruguayan police officers
Operatives of Operation Condor
Uruguayan expatriates in the United States