The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe revived once again the discussion about similar events that marked socio-political life at the international level.
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After the first anniversary of the death of the former president of Haiti, Jovenel Moiseand now the death of Abe, once again shows the great gap in political and security ideals that the world is going through.
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These events have been a common denominator in international political history, marked by the sad reference of the death of John F. Kennedy in 1963 during an event in Dallas.
Since then, in the last 60 years, more than 100 events of this type have been transcendental for different countries, mainly in America. We will review a few below.
John F. Kennedy
As anticipated, the death of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963, during a presidential tour of the state of Texas, radically changed the politics of the United States and the world.
Several bullet impacts while passing by his convertible car on Elm Street in Dallas were the cause of the death of the then president. The defendant for committing the crime, Lee Harvey Oswald, was arrested 80 minutes later.
According to investigations, Oswald would have murdered a policeman minutes ago, before committing the crime against Kennedy. In addition, unpopular investigations doubt Oswald’s direct involvement and assert that there are other participants in the president’s crime.
Olof Palme
Sven Olof Joachim Palme was a Prime Minister of Sweden in two different periods. Palme, then 59 years old and already separated from the Swedish ministry, was assassinated outside a cinema.
This murder that happened in 1986 with a Smith % Wessom revolver has never been solved. Theories generally point to a crime with a political charge, but without pointing to a specific suspect.
The most pointed theory is a crime by the extreme right-wing party of Sweden, but other investigations have shed possible light on the Kurdistan workers’ party or the South African apartheid secret service.
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Luis Carrero White
On December 20, 1973, the extinct terrorist group ETA carried out the so-called ‘Operation Ogre’, where the then president Luis Carrero Blanco was assassinated, hitting the strongest point of the Franco dictatorship.
The facts, like the previous case, could never be clarified, they were archived and after the end of the Spanish dictatorship, some linked to the facts were acquitted.
Even so, these events, and other attacks carried out by ETA, led the group to be classified as a terrorist by the United States, in a list from which they left until 2022, after having determined that the group no longer represents a danger after its dissolution.
Luis Carlos Galan
In Colombia, between the 1980s and 1990s, the social and political crisis worsened with an extensive series of assassinations of political leaders, judges, and magistrates who tried to fight against drug trafficking and overflowing common crime in the country.
As the greatest example in Colombian black history is the murder of Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento, political candidate for the 1990 elections who was shot dead on August 18, 1989 during a political event in Soacha, a municipality near the Colombian capital.
The events were attributed to the Medellín Cartel, then led by Pablo Escobar and Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, but members of the DAS were also linked, including its then director Miguel Maza Márquez, who until 2016 would be convicted of the events.
In place of the deceased Galan, César Gaviria would take the political reins of the Liberal party and months later he would take office as president of the Republic of Colombia.
Jo Cox
Helen Joanne Cox, better known as Jo Cox, was assassinated in 2016 during the United Kingdom elections for remaining in the European Union or separation through Brexit.
Cox belonged to the Labor caucus and promoted permanence in the European bloc until on June 16 she was stabbed and shot to death by Thomas Mair, a 52-year-old Briton who belonged to an American Nazi group.
After the attack on the political leader who would die in a hospital, Mair was sentenced to life in prison for the events in November of the same year.
Jovenel Moise
The most recent case, leaving out that of Shinzo Abe in Japan, is that of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, who was assassinated in his residence after a military incursion on July 7, 2021.
The president was shot at home, along with his wife, who managed to survive, after an attack that had been planned for months and in which more than 25 Colombian soldiers were summoned to carry out the events.
Hours after Moïse’s murder, some of the assassins were captured, others were discharged, and Vice President Claude Joseph was even linked as one of the intellectual authors, something that has not been clarified to date.
Of those captured, mostly former officials of the armed forces in Colombia, no one has yet been sentenced to a prison sentence, despite remaining in detention, while some appear before US justice.
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