The Vanguard must die in Bolivia
“The National Vanguard,” in Italian Avanguardia Nazionale, was a nationalist, anti-communist and anti-bourgeois movement founded in 1960 and led by Stefano Delle Chiaie (1936-2019). The following is a translation of a chapter of the 2012 autobiographical book by Stefano Delle Chiaie: “L’aquila e il condor” (The Eagle and the Condor). It narrates the events that led to the murder in La Paz, Bolivia, of Pierluigi Pagliai, a young Italian political militant and friend of Delle Chiaie. On August 2, 1980, a bomb exploded in the Bologna, Italy, railroad station, killing eighty-five people and wounding hundreds. It was the cruelest of the series of bloody attacks that began with the 1969 bombing of the branch of Banca Nazionale dell’Agricoltura, in Milan. Right away, the government authorities decided to orient the investigation toward a phantomatic “black medusa,” that is, an international extreme-rig...