Rogelia Cruz Martínez (31 August 1941 – 11 January 1968) was a Guatemalan beauty pageant titleholder and left-wing political activist. After she won the 1959 Miss Guatemala, she joined the Guatemalan Party of Labour and became romantically involved with its leader, Leonardo Castillo Johnson. She was ultimately kidnapped and murdered for her association with the party and Johnson.
Cruz was arrested following a traffic violation but was released after the PGT and Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (FAR) made threats towards the judge presiding over her case.[3] Shortly after her release, she was kidnapped and then, on 11 January 1968, her body was found, naked, with signs of torture and sexual assault, at the foot of a bridge near Escuintla.[4] It is believed her relationship with Castillo Johnson was the cause for her murder.
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In retaliation for her murder, the PGT attacked US military personnel, killing two men and wounding a third, and the Guatemalan military subsequently assassinated Castillo Johnson in response.[5]
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^González Molina, Marta G. (2011). Guatemala : el martirio de una reina y la guerra de la vergüenza. [Palma de Mallorca]: Novum Pro. ISBN9788493887704. OCLC 820554661.
^Daniel, Wilkinson (2002). Silence on the mountain : stories of terror, betrayal, and forgetting in Guatemala. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN0618221395. OCLC 50617039.
^. United States Department of State. 2004. Department of State Publication 11152. Archived from the original on 2004-09-29.
^Gall, Norman (20 May 1971). "Slaughter in Guatemala". The New York Review of Books. 16 (9).
^. Archived from the original on 2006-11-10. Retrieved 2007-01-06.
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