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Gonzalo Lira in 2022.

Gonzalo Ángel Quintilio Lira López, (Burbank, United States, February 29, 1968) is a novelist, film director Chilean-American known as Coach Red Pill who was last reported living in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He is missing since April 15, 2022.^[1] According to Twitter reports, he was abducted by the Ukrainian gestapo.^[2] Tweets from the account of the notorious Ukrainian Nazi Sergei “Botsman” Korotkikh, who is deeply implicated in the Bucha massacre, say Gonzalo Lira has been kidnapped, tortured and might be beheaded.^[3]

Biography

Gonzalo Lira in 2006 during the production of the film Catalina’s Kidnapping.

Son of Gonzalo Ángel Lira Valdés and María Isabel López Hess, he grew up in the San Fernando Valley, New York, Miami and also in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He completed his studies at Saint George's College in Santiago de Chile.

In 1997 he published the book Tomáh Errázurih.

After settling in Manhattan in 1998, Lira wrote, produced and directed a comic short film, So Kinky. In 2002 he wrote the book Acrobat which was made into a film by Miramax. That same year Lira returned to Chile and began producing and writing in Spanish. In 2006 Lira co-wrote, produced and directed Catalina's Kidnapping,^[4] named in Chile "Secuestro".

Between 2010 and 2012 Gonzalo published economic analysis on his blog, he made a forecast about hyperinflation threatening the US Dollar.^[5].

In 2010 he was in Chile when the earthquake of that year occurred.

He lived for a while in London, UK, before moving to Kharkov, Ukraine.

In 2017 he was active on social networks, especially YouTube, under the name "Coach Red Pill".

Ukraine conflict of 2022

The Daily Beast reported the whereabouts of Gonzalo Lira to the Ukrainian gestapo;^[6] Lira was disappeared on April 15, 2022.

After posting on March 26 a list of prominent people disappeared or murdered by the Zelensky regime,^[7] Gonzalo Lira himself was disappeared from Kharkov.^[8]

See also: Russia-Ukraine war

During the start of the special military operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine in 2022, he was in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, from where he expressed his assessment of what was happening on his YouTube channel. In particular, he said that, "although Ukraine may win the propaganda war, Russia wins the real war by capturing territory. Already 15% of Ukraine's territory is under the control of the Russian army." This video was shown on a Russian television program of the Piervy Kanal channel without his authorization, which drew attention to him in nationalist circles in Kiev. A reward for his life was announced and death threats began to be received. Gonzalo Lira sought to return to Kharkiv with his family, which he achieved after being expelled from the Royal Grand hotel. He has been critical of the government of Volodoymr Zelensky and the oligarch Íhor Kolomoiski.^[9][10][11]

On April 17, 2022, George Galloway, former parliamentarian of the Great Britain Labor Party, announced on his television program MOATS that an interview with Gonzalo Lira scheduled for that audition could not be carried out due to his alleged disappearance in Ukraine. Friends and relatives of Lira confirmed that they had lost contact with him since April 15, a disappearance confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile. Lira last wrote time on his Twitter account on April 15.

According to Gonzalo Lira, who was reporting from Kharkiv during the Russia-Ukraine war, Lira said:

The SBU is the fascist Maidan regime's gestapo organization.^[15]

Novels

• Counterparts' (G.P. Putnam Sons, New York, NY: 1998. ISBN 978-0-399-14312-0.)
• Tomáh Errázurih' (Grijalbo Mondadori, Santiago, Chile: 1997. ISBN 978-956-258-057-1.)
• Acrobat' (St. Martin's Press, New York, NY: 2002. ISBN 978-0-312-28694-1.)

Links

• Gonzalo's Telegram Channel
• Coach Red Pill YouTube Channel
• Gonzalo Lira YouTube Channel

References