Greetings from South America

[Carolo_II]

I am new in the Phora, but I like to say to all of you my croatian brothers "Greetings". I live in South America, Traditional Catholic and of spaniard-german-polish ancestry. I have not met in person a lot of croats, but I support you in your nationalist reivindications of your great country.

As in other time
Za Dom Spremni!

Carolo

[Slavic Enforcer]

Hi Carolo. Welcome. :)

[Ace Rimmer]

Hello friend, welcome , we have large community of people of Croatian ancestry down there.

:welcome:

[SlovenianNationalist]

Hello friend, welcome , we have large community of people of Croatian ancestry down there.

There are many Slovenians living in Argentina too. I don't know if anyone lives in Ecuador, though.

[Zrinski]

Welcome. :)

[Jimbo Gomez]

Welcome to the Phora.

[Jebivjetar]

Hi.



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[Watzy]

Southern America provided a new homeland to many Croatians and a sanctuary to many nationalists.

A photo of the meating of Croatian emigre in Argentina gathered around Ante Pavelić (after ww2.):

http://images6.theimagehosting.com/Foto3.941.th.JPG (http://server6.theimagehosting.com/image.php?img=Foto3.941.JPG)

[Watzy]

Mario Eduardo Firmenich

http://www.tkb.org/documents/Members/MEM4126_firmenichfrom.jpg

http://www.tkb.org/documents/Members/MEM4126_firmenichfromeluniversal.jpg

Mario Eduardo Firmenich (b. Buenos Aires, 24 January 1948) was a founder and active member of the Montoneros organization in Argentina before and during the Dirty War of the 1970s.

In his youth, Mario Firmenich studied in Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and participated in the right-wing Catholic Youth Students organization. There he met the Jesuit Carlos Mugica, who would influence him on his conversion to left-wing thinking, and he became an activist in the Peronist Justicialist Party . He remained a good friend of Mugica until his murder in 1974 by the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance.

On May 29, 1970, Firmenich took part in Operación Pindapoy, which consisted of the kidnapping and unofficial trial of ex-dictator Pedro Aramburu. Aramburu was later executed. After the deaths of Abal Medina, and Ramus and Carlos Sabino Navarro, Firmenich became the leader, from 1971 to 1977, of the Montoneros. Following the Ezeiza massacre on June 20, 1973, when the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance shot at the Montoneros, and Juan Peron's death in July 1974, the organization led by Firmenich decided to become clandestine.

A year after the 1976 coup which brought Jorge Rafael Videla to power, Firmenich went into exile, living in Rome, Mexico and Cuba. In 1978 he organized a commercial campaign before the Football World Cup in order to make the international comunity aware of the human-rights abuses by the military junta. The same year, he reorganized the Montoneros into a political and a military branch.

In 1979, while Firmenich was still in exile, the Montoneros led a large offensive against the dictatorship, which ended up in the capture and death of most members of the organization. Firmenich visited the Sandinista National Liberation Front in Nicaragua.

During Raúl Alfonsín's presidency during the democratic transition, Firmenich was captured in Brazil, extradited and condemned to 30 years in prison under charges of "terrorism" and "subversion", along with Fernando Vaca Narvaja, Enrique Gorriarán Merlo and Roberto Perdía. In prison he led the Peronismo Revolucionario, an internal movement of the Justicialist Party which revived the objectives of the peronist-left of the 1970s.

Excluded from president Carlos Menem's first amnesty of guerrillero leaders and military officers, he was freed on December 29, 1990.

He has long had to face accusations from among survivors of Argentina's various guerrilla movements that he was a double agent, working for the Argentine security forces all along.

He's of Croat origin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Firmenich

[Watzy]

Known Croats from Southern America

Néstor Kirchner Ostoić

http://www.argentina.org.au/images/politi1.jpg

Kirchner was born in Río Gallegos, in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz. His father, who was a post office official, was of Swiss descent; his mother, Marija Ostoić, born in Punta Arenas, Chile, was of Croatian background.

Francisco José Orlich Bolmarcich

http://www.elespiritudel48.org/orlich/portada.jpg

Bolmarcich was President of Costa Rica from 1962 to 1966. His parents came to Costa Rica from the town of Punat on the island of Krk, Croatia. His villa in Punat is named "Villa Costarica".

Vicente Merino Bielich - Fmr. acting president (1946) & vice-president of Chile

Leonor Oyarzún Ivanovic - wife of former chilean president Patricio Aylwin.

Roy Nikisch
http://www.mega24.com.ar/fotos/asdffghrtyu.jpg
Governor of Chaco, Argentina

Jorge Sobisch - Governor of Neuquén, Argentina

Jorge Milton Capitanich - Argentinean Senator

Antonio Horvath Kiss
http://appsvr2.senado.cl/mss/fotos/zaldivar.png
Chilean Senator

Baldo Prokurica Prokurica - Chilean Senator

Radomiro Tomić - Fmr. Chilean Deputy, Senator and Ambassador

Juan Carlos Nadalich

http://www.desarrollosocial.gov.ar/imagenes/notas/430.gif
Argentinean Minister of Social Development

Carolina Goić Boroević
http://www.bcn.cl/pags/biografias/getfoto.php?id=4157
Chilean Deputy

Domingo Yurac Soto
http://www.poderjudicial.cl/0.8/noticias/contenido/images/200604261_3.jpg
Chilean Supreme Court Justice

Ingrid Antonijević Hahn - Chilean Minister

Martín Zilić Hrepic - Chilean Minister

Sergio Espejo Yaksić - Chilean Minister

Romy Schmidt Crnosija - Chilean Minister

Alejandro Jadresić - Chilean politician

Tonka Tomicic
http://www.deportivo.cl/vgn/images/portal/FOTO022004/76269321tonka1-2.jpg
Chilean model and TV host

Santiago Pavlovic - Chilean journalist and war correspondent

Milan Ivelić - Curator of the National Arts Gallery, Santiago, Chile

Pedro Carrión Pavlich
http://www.iglesiacatolica.org.pe/cep/cep_obispos/imagenes/carrion.jpg
Bishop of Puno, Peru

Alejandro Goic Karmelic
http://www.lanacion.cl/prontus_noticias/site/artic/20041125/imag/FOTO17120041125210204.jpg
Bishop of Rancagua, Chile

Tomislav Koljatic Maroevic
http://www.iglesia.cl/obispos/fotos/23.jpg
Bishop of Linares, Chile


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Croatians

[B-Pep]

Greetings brother!

The current president of Argentina is actually of croatian ancestry too.