Miguel Nazar Haro

Miguel Nazar Haro (26 September 1924[1] – 26 January 2012) was the head of Mexico's Dirección Federal de Seguridad (Federal Security Directorate) from 1978 to 1982. He started his career working for the secret-police chief Fernando Gutiérrez Barrios. During his time in the DFS, Nazar Haro and the Directorate were involved in the Mexican government's so called Dirty War, a series of state-crimes against leftist insurgents, social movements and the government's political opposition. Nazar is known to have been an anti-soviet CIA asset in Mexico, under the codename LITEMPO-12.

Miguel Nazar Haro
Born26 September 1924
Pánuco, Veracruz
Died26 January 2012 (aged 87)
Mexico City, Mexico
OccupationDomestic intelligence chief
EmployerFederal government of Mexico

He was arrested in 2004 on charges stemming from the disappearance of a group of alleged guerrillas. In 2006, these charges were dropped.[2][3]

Under his command, the DFS was accused by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration of protecting drug lords and their traffic operations.[4]

References
  1. "Nazar Haro, el guardián feroz, paranoico, prepotente…". Proceso. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  2. "Former Mexican intelligence chief accused of ‘dirty war’ disappearances of militants has died", The Washington Post, 28 January 2012
  3. Especial Nazar Haro, un tigre que murió en su propia jaula Archived 2012-01-28 at the Wayback Machine El Universal, 28 January 2012 (Spanish)
  4. "10 claves para conocer quién fue Miguel Nazar Haro". adnpolitico.com. Retrieved 7 September 2015.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.