Zelmar Michelini (Montevideo, May 20, 1924 - Buenos Aires, 1976) was an Uruguayan reporter and politician, murdered in Buenos Aires in 1976 in the frame of Operation Condor. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Zelmar Michelini was member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1954 to 1958, and then of the Chamber of Senators starting in 1966. he was Minister of the Industry under Óscar Diego Gestido's presidency (Colorado Party), before renouncing in 1970 because of disagreements with the government's policies. At that time he left the conservative Colorado party to become a member of the Christian Democrat party of Uruguay. Alongside other left-wing parties (Communist and Socialist Party and others independent left-wing groups), he participated in the foundation of the Frente Amplio coalition ("Broad Front") in 1971. Oscar Diego Gestido, Colorado politician (1901-1967), was President of Uruguay from March 1, 1967 to December 6, 1967. ... The Colorado Party (Spanish: Partido Colorado) is a political party in Uruguay. ... Christian Democracy is a political ideology, born at the end of the 19th century, largely as a result of the papal encyclical Rerum Novarum of Pope Leo XIII, in which the Vatican recognizes workers misery and agrees that something should be done about it, in reaction to the rise of... The Communist Party of Uruguay (Partido Comunista del Uruguay) is a political party in Uruguay. ... The Socialist Party of Uruguay (Spanish: Partido Socialista del Uruguay) is an Uruguayan political party founded in 1910. ... The Broad Front (Frente Amplio in Spanish) is an Uruguayan front of political parties and organizations. ...

Reporter in the newspaper Acción, he also founded in the 1960s the weekly Hechos. Zelmar Michelini became again senator in 1971, as a member of the Frente Amplio. However, he had to exiled himself to Buenos Aires after the 1973 coup d'Etat, and started denouncing the human rights violations committed by Bordaberry's dictatorship. Juan María Bordaberry is a Uruguayan statesman, who served as President from 1972 to 1976, when he was ousted in a military coup. ...

Zelmar Michelini was kidnapped on May 18, 1976 in Buenos Aires by a paramilitary group. His corpse was discovered on May 20, 1976, alongside Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, Rosario del Carmen Barredo and William Whitelaw. Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz (Montevideo, 1934 - Buenos Aires, 1976) was a Uruguayan deputy, member of the National Party. ... William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, KT, CH, MC, PC, DL (June 28, 1918 - July 1, 1999), commonly known as Willie Whitelaw, was a British Conservative politician. ...

Judge Roberto Timbal put under preventive detention former dictator Bordaberry and former Chancellor Juan Carlos Blanco on November 16, 2006, for being the organizers of these murders.

See also

• Operation Condor