Dwyer family hope to meet minister

THE family of an Irishman who may have been lured to his death in an anti-terrorist shoot-out in Bolivia hope to meet the Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin again this month as part of their campaign for an international enquiry into his death.

Michael Dwyer’s family is expected to raise claims made by United States diplomats, and exposed by WikiLeaks, that Mr Dwyer may have been lured to his death as part of a plot by the South American country’s own intelligence services.

Mr Dwyer, 24, from Ballinderry, Co Tipperary, was one of three people shot dead by police during a raid on a hotel in Bolivia on April 16, 2009 over an alleged plot to assassinate president Evo Morales.