Raid on the Hotel Las Américas
Bolivian police operation in 2009 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Raid on the Hotel Las Américas was an operation led by the Bolivian police on April 16, 2009, in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Three foreign nationals died in the operation, whom the police identified as terrorist mercenaries, while a further two people were arrested. According to the Bolivian police, the group had been planning to assassinate Bolivian President Evo Morales and Vice President Álvaro García Linera.
Eduardo Rózsa-Flores, Hungarian-Bolivian; Árpád Magyarosi, Hungarian-Romanian; and Michael Martin Dwyer, Irish; were killed during the raid. Mario Tadic, Croatian-Bolivian; and Előd Tóásó, Hungarian; were arrested.