Bolivian killing of Irish national allegedly linked to CIA

Michael Dwyer death haunts family

Published Sunday, August 22, 2010, 7:29 AM

Updated Sunday, August 22, 2010, 7:47 AM

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Michael Dwyer, a 24-year-old man from Tipperary, was one of the three men shot in Santa Cruz in April 2009 over an alleged plot to assassinate president Evo Morales.

“This is not only important for us as a family, but for human rights on a global scale.”

Dwyer, who worked for an Irish security firm in Co. Mayo until October 2008, traveled to Bolivia with two work colleagues (a Hungarian and a Slovenian) for a bodyguard course.

The course never took place.

Dwyer’s two friends returned to Ireland but Dwyer stayed on, telling his parents he had found work in the security business.

Evidence was given at Dwyer’s inquest that his flight was paid for by businessman Alejandro Melgar, a man with links to a separatist group in Bolivia.

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killowen | Aug 22, 2010, 05:37 PM EDT

In service to the Man in every land but their own. That's how it goes for time after time.

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PhlutiePhan | Aug 22, 2010, 03:43 PM EDT

In the movie a "clear and present danger". a sniper teeam is put in the field to kill off radical South American leaders and drug trafficers. They are then sold out by the C.I.A. and they are killed off one by one. Harrison Ford then comes to the rescue. I would say that this is pretty accurate in this story on Michael Dwyer. Morales is from the same "moldy cheese" from which Hugo Chavez came.

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