Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz

Héctor " Toba " Gutiérrez Ruiz ( born February 21, 1934 in Montevideo, † May 1976 in Buenos Aires ) was a Uruguayan politician and journalist.

From 1959 to 1960 he studied philosophy in Spain. In 1961, he married Matilde Rodríguez Larreta, with whom he had five children. One of his sons is Mateo Gutierrez. From 1971 to 1972 he was director of the daily newspaper El Debate. Gutiérrez Ruiz, who belonged to the Partido Nacional, was sitting in the 40th and 41st legislative session as a deputy for the department of Tacuarembó of 15 February 1967 to the coup on 27 June 1973 in the Cámara de Representantes. 1972 and 1973 he practiced it from the office of President of the Chamber. After he fled after the coup in Argentina and partly lived there in illegal accommodation together with Zelmar Michelini and Mario Benedetti, he was just as Michelini and Tupamaro activists Rosario Barredo and William Whitelaw as part of Operation Condor in the night to May 19 1976 kidnapped by a Argentinean- Uruguayan military command. On May 20, 1976, they were found tortured and murdered in a car. The kidnapping and murder is the subject of documentation Destino Final.