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Jump to full article: Associated Press (AP), 2006-09-22
Author: BILL CORMIER Associated Press Writer
Intro: Enrique Gorriaran Merlo, a former Argentine rebel who claimed he led the squad that killed exiled Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza, died Friday. He was 65.
Gorriaran, whose hit-and-run attacks on military units marked years of instability in Argentina, died while being rushed into emergency surgery, said Dr. Donato Spacavento, director of the Agudos Cosme Argerich hospital in Buenos Aires.
Gorriaran, who helped found the communist People's Revolutionary Army, came to prominence in 1974, when his guerrilla group announced it was creating a "free zone" in the mountains of the central Argentine province of Tucuman. . . .
In a 1995 television interview, Gorriaran said he personally led the group that killed Somoza on Sept. 16, 1980, after sneaking into the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion.
"I picked up my M-16 and emptied the clip into him," the chain-smoking Gorriaran said.
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