Arguedas Mendieta, Antonio

Arguedas Mendieta, Antonio
▪ 2001

      Bolivian political leader (b. 1929?, Bolivia—d. Feb. 22, 2000, La Paz, Bol.), rose to become Bolivia's minister of the interior during the 1964–69 military dictatorship of Gen. René Barrientos; recruited by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in 1965, he aided efforts to defeat a guerrilla group in eastern Bolivia led by Che Guevara. Following the capture and execution of Guevara in 1967, Arguedas became disenchanted with the Barrientos regime and secretly arranged for copies of Guevara's diaries to be smuggled to Cuba; the subsequent publication of the diaries, which detailed the relentless pursuit of the guerrilla leader by Bolivian special forces, was perceived as a major embarrassment for Barrientos. Fearful of being exposed, Arguedas fled to Chile and eventually to Cuba, where he spent most of the 1970s. He later returned to Bolivia, and by the late 1990s he had reportedly become a terrorist. He died when a bomb he was carrying exploded.

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