TROXLER-Julio-Tomas

Julio Tomás Troxler went to police academy when he turned 18. At the time of his retirement from the force in 1955 he had attained the rank of Oficial Inspector (Inspector Officer). He served briefly as deputy chief of the provincial police in 1973. In 1974 he was deputy director of the Instituto de Estudios Criminalísticos de la Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales. And somehow, he (like hundreds of other Argentines) had earned the ire of El Brujo (The Warlock). This third-tier supervillain nickname belonged to the Minister of Social Welfare, a Fascist occultist. El Brujo's murder squad called itself the "Argentine Anticommunist Alliance", but its definition of 'communist' was 'everyone El Brujo doesn't like'. 49 years ago last Wednesday - on September 20th, 1974 - Julio Tomás Troxler was kidnapped and murdered by an AAA death squad. While the AAA launched Argentina's Dirty War, they did not ultimately benefit El Brujo - between outrage over the death squad and the fact that his monetary inflation cut everyone's savings in half, he wound up running off to Spain less than a year after Julio's murder.