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Hugo Gonzalez Moscoso, a leading figure in Bolvian trotskyism died several days ago at the age of 87. He was directly involved in the fighting and taking over a ansenal that led to the 1952 Revolution which led to the Paz Estensorro regime rather than the workers taking power. He was one of the founders of the COB (Central Obrero Boliviano), delegate from Santa Cruz, and editor of the first program of the COB which called for a Workers and Farmers Goverrnment to advance to socialism. For his political activity, he was exiled to Paraguay and Argentina and imprisoned in Bolivia and tortured by the secret police who then specialized in torturing trotskyists. He received political asylum from the Allende government in Chile. But with the Pinochet coup in 1973 he had to seek asylum in the Belgium Embassy. Later in Brussels has was incorporated into the leadership of the Fourth International (USEC). In 1978 he returned clandestinely to Bolivia and was captured, tortured by Argentinian agents and then expelled to Sweden. In his last years he supported the government of Evo Morales, while other trotskyist tendencies opposed the Morales government as being reformist. EARL GILMAN ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
