Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz

Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz (Montevideo, 1934 - Buenos Aires, 1976) was a Uruguayan deputy, member of the National Party. President of the Chamber of Deputies at the time of the coup d'Etat in 1973, he exiled himself in Argentina. Héctor Gutiérrez was then "disappeared" in Buenos Aires in May 1976 in the frame of Operation Condor, and assassinated alongside former senator Zelmar Michelini and the couple of political refugees Rosario Barredo and William Whitelaw.

On November 16, 2006, judge Roberto Timbal assigned to preventive detention former dictator Juan María Bordaberry as well as the former Chancellor Juan Carlos Blanco as the organizers of these crimes. Uruguayan police officer Hugo Campos Hermida has also been suspected of being responsible of this assassination [1].