The Day A Boxing Champion Was Assassinated | The Story of Floreal García | Trans World Sport

1,060 views · Published 5 September 2017 · 13:12 · Indexed 24 October 2026

Channel: Trans World Sport · 2017 · Sports

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This is the incredible story of Floreal Garcia - a Pan American boxing champion and Olympic hopeful who was held as a political prisoner for his involvement with guerrilla group, Tupamaros. He was later kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Uruguay - a country once known as "The Torture Chamber of South America". The perpetrators of his murder have never been identified.

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