Everything about Hugo Spadafora totally explained
Hugo Spadafora Franco (
1940-September
1985) was a
Panamanian doctor and guerrilla fighter in
Guinea-Bissau and
Nicaragua. He criticized the military in
Panama, which led to his murder in
1985.
Born in Chitre, Spadafora was a doctor, graduated from the
University of Bologna, in
Italy. He served as a combat doctor with the independence guerrilla of Guinea-Bissau. Originally a critic of the military regime headed by
Omar Torrijos, he served as its Vice-Minister of Health. In 1978, he organized the
Victoriano Lorenzo Brigade, formed by a group of Panamanian fighters to fight against the
Anastasio Somoza Debayle regime in Nicaragua.
Concerned about the increased Soviet and
Cuban influence in the
Sandinista regime of Nicaragua and the delay of free elections, Spadafora joined the Sandino Revolutionary Front (FRS) alongside
Edén Pastora ("Comandante Zero"), hero of the August 1978 seizure of Somoza's palace. The rise of
Manuel Noriega as authoritarian ruler of
Panama compelled Spadafora to denounce Noriega's protection of drug trafficking. Spadafora was detained and tortured by Noriega's forces when entering Panama from
Costa Rica in September 1985, and his decapitated body was later found stuffed in a post office bag. Then President
Nicolás Ardito Barletta tried to set up a commission to investigate the murder but was forced to resign by Noriega, which increased suspicions that the military ordered the beheading.
It wasn't until the administration of President
Guillermo Endara that a court found Noriega
in absentia and other followers guilty of a conspiracy to murder Spadafora.
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