Kidnapping of Uruguayans Universindo Rodriguez and Liliana de Casariego in Brazil

Country
U.S.
Created

4/12/1978

In this document, the US Ambassador to Uruguay informs Washington that the Brazilian journalist Luis Cunha had unveiled the alleged kidnapping of Uruguayan political refugees Universindo Rodriguez and Liliana de Casariego in Brazil. The document highlights that Cunha strongly suspected that the Uruguayans' captors belonged to local Brazilian security forces.