Ramón Rosa Rodríguez Explained

Ramón Rosa Rodríguez
Nationality:Paraguayan
Death Place:Asunción
Rank:General

General Ramón Rosa Rodríguez (? – 10 October 1994) was a Paraguayan military officer. He was the head of Paraguay's national anti-drugs agency, Secretaría Nacional Antidrogas (SENAD), and was delivering a report to President Juan Carlos Wasmosy when he was assassinated. One of the soldiers escorting him, Captain Juan Emiliano Ruiz Díaz, was convicted of his murder in 1997. Rosa Rodríguez' suitcase was stolen in the attack, later re-appearing with most of its contents missing.[1] The missing report is said to have implicated ex-President Andrés Rodríguez, then a Senator, as "the chief drug kingpin in Paraguay".[2]

Notes and References

  1. 10 October 2012, Diario ABC Color, A 18 años de la muerte de un jefe antidrogas
  2. Jayme Brener, 1 December 1997, Transnational Institute, Paraguay: An Unpunished Crime