Those New Killings

Overview

Two uruguayan lawmakers Zelmar Michelini and Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, were looking for a democratic outcame for Uruguay, governed by militars. Those lawmakers were part of an important movement that worked against the uruguayan dictatorship. Michelini and Guitérrez were tortured and ejecuted with Rosario Barredo and William Whitelaw, two members of the Tupamaros guerrilla. The crime was one of the first examples of the Condor Plan, that the dictatorships of South America coordinated to elminate all kind of political opponents.