“Never underestimate the value of a woman.”
In Hamburg, Germany, it was twenty to ten in the morning of April 1, 1971. A beautiful and elegant woman eye color deep sky enters the office of the consul of Bolivia and patiently waiting to be addressed.
While he is doing anteroom, indifferent look at the paintings that adorn the office. Roberto Quintanilla, the Bolivian consul, dressed elegantly dark wool suit, it appears in the office and greets struck by the beauty of the woman claiming to be Australian, and who days before had asked for an interview.
For a fleeting moment, both are facing. Revenge appears embodied in a very attractive female face. The woman, lush beauty stares into his eyes and without words extracted a revolver and fired three times. There was no resistance, no struggle, no struggle. The impacts hit the target. In his flight, he left behind a wig, her purse, her Colt Cobra 38 Special, and a piece of paper that read VoD. ELN.
Who was this bold woman and why have murdered “Toto” Quintanilla?
In the guevarista militia was a woman who called himself Imilla whose meaning in language is Quechua and Aymara indigenous girl or young (now considered an insult in Bolivia). Your name: Monica (Monika) Ertl. German by birth who had made a journey of eleven thousand kilometers from Bolivia lost for the sole purpose of executing a man, the character most hated by the world left: Roberto Quintanilla Pereira.
She, thereafter, became the most wanted woman in the world. He grabbed the front pages of newspapers across America. But what were his reasons and what are their origins?
Let us return to the March 3, 1950, date on which Monica had come to Bolivia with Hans Ertl His father through what became known as the route of rats path that facilitated the escape of members of the Nazi regime to South America at the end of the largest and bloodiest armed conflict in world history: the Second World War.
Monica’s story could be told with great passages through research of Jürgen Schreiber. Which I present is just a brushstroke of this exciting story involving many feelings and characters.
Monika Ertl: The woman who avenged Che Guevara.
09 Tuesday May 2017
Posted LATIN AMERICA, Monika Ertl
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