Bolivia Delegation Urges U.S. to Notify Ex-President of Obligation to Return to Trial for 2003 Massacre

October 6th, 2006 at 06:43 Björn Hallberg

The US is not so quick to render assistance though it seems. Because massacres aren’t really massacres if they’re carried out by the righteous sort of people apparently. It’s good to remember what sort of monsters the US is harbouring and protecting, especially in the midst of their tireless campaigns against democratically and progressive elected governments in the region. Many of whom are subject to a barrage of baseless or contrived accusations of domestic manhandling.

A Bolivian human rights delegation is visiting the United States this week to urge the US government to notify Bolivia’s ex-president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and two of his former ministers to return to Bolivia immediately to stand trial in connection with the massacre of scores of protesters three years ago.

Sanchez de Lozada, Carlos Sanchez Berzain and Jorge Berindoague have all resided in the US since fleeing Bolivia in 2003 following a citizen’s uprising that removed them from power. The conflict arose following a decision by the Sanchez de Lozada government to export Bolivia’s natural gas through a port in Chile. When hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in protest, government forces responded with soldiers and tanks, killing 67 of the protesters and wounding more than 400.

Also, a stark reminder of what transpired during that period with regard to Bolivia, Water privatization and the American transnational Bechtel:
Bolivian Activist Oscar Olivera on Bechtel’s Privatization of Rainwater and Why Evo Morales Should Remember the Ongoing Struggle Over Water

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