Fascinating story unraveling in the pages of the Wall Street Journal about one Eduardo Rózsa Flores, a Hungarian national who was killed last week by police in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. According to the Bolivian authorities, he was plotting to overthrow Evo Morales’ government and assassinate Morales himself. According to an interview Flores gave to a Hungarian TV show a few months ago, he was going to go organize a legal militia within Santa Cruz in order to defend the province against Morales’ attempts to found a communist state.

Flores seems to have been a colorful character. An author, an actor, and a professional revolutionary, he starred in a semi-fictionalized movie of his own life (now added to my Netflix queue). From watching the first few minutes of the film on Google Video, it seems like he grew up with impeccable leftist revolutionary credentials, with an idealist Jewish playwright father who got kicked out of the Bolivian Communist Party for his clandestine work with Che Guevara in the jungles.

What changed him from a fiery revolutionary to a establishmentarian counter-revolutionary, one wonders. Could it be that totalitarian communists are taking the place of fascists in those fevered minds looking to pick up arms and fight for a cause? More to come as I find it.