Human Death in Uruguay - Deaths by Firearm in Uruguay, Disease-Related Deaths in Uruguay, People Murdered in Uruguay (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Deaths by Firearm in Uruguay, Disease-Related Deaths in Uruguay, People Murdered in Uruguay, Road Accident Deaths in Uruguay, Eugenio Berros, Mario Benedetti, Dan Mitrione, Venancio Flores, Juan Idiarte Borda, Delmira Agustini, Bernardo Berro, Eduardo Jimnez de Archaga, Vladimir Roslik. Excerpt: Eugenio Berros Sagredo (born November 14, 1947 - died in April 1995) was a Chilean biochemist who worked for the DINA intelligence agency. Berros was charged of Proyecto Andrea in which Pinochet ordered the production of sarin gas, a chemical weapon used by the DINA which does not leave trace and makes the death of the victim similar to a heart attack . Other biochemical weapons produced by Berros included anthrax and botulism . Berros also allegedly produced cocaine for Pinochet, who then sold it to Europe and the United States . Wanted by the Chilean authorities for involvement in the Letelier case, he escaped to Uruguay in 1991, at the beginning of the Chilean transition to democracy, and what has been identified as his corpse was found in 1995 near Montevideo. Known in the DINA under his alias "Hermes", for which he began to work in 1974, Berros was connected to the creation of the explosive used for Orlando Letelier's car-bombing assassination in Washington DC in 1976 . In April 1976, Berros recreated sarin, first invented by the Nazis . He was also suspected, along with DINA agent Michael Townley, of the torture and assassination of the Spanish citizen Carmelo Soria. In 1978, Michael Townley, in a sworn but confidential declaration, stated that sarin gas was produced by the DINA under Berros' direction. He added that it was used to assassinate the real state archives custodian Renato Len Zenteno and the Army Corporal Manuel Leyton.... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=13141354