Hugo Campos Hermida

Hugo Campos Hermida (September 27, 1928 – November 24, 2001) was a Uruguayan police officer.

Background

Hermida also received training in the United States, including from the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Significant roles

He has been accused with other Uruguayans in participating in the Argentina, Argentine detention center ''Automotores Orletti'', a clandestine holding area during the "Dirty War" in Argentina which was also used in the frame of Operation Condor. According to a document published by ''La República (Montevideo), La República'' newspaper, Campos Hermida was responsible for Senator Zelmar Michelini and deputy Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, 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 also denounced him in his complaint before the Spanish justice for the "forced disappearance, 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.

Campos also participated to the capture of the founder of the Tupamaros, Raúl Sendic, on August 31, 1972, as well as on the events of 14 April 1972 during which current senator Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro was detained while the Martinera couple was killed in the Amazonas street in Montevideo.

See also

* Politics of Uruguay

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