Bolivia: Prosecuting Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada

Posted 18 October 2006 23:06 GMT

Countries	Bolivia
Topics	Protest, International Relations

Bolivia

Nick Buxton has been busy lately organizing the International Day of Action in Solidarity with Bolivia, which aimed to “call on the US to notify and extradite former President of Bolivia, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada (known as Goni) and two of his Ministers from the US.” In a related note, Aldo Orellana guest-blogs at Blog from Bolivia about the third anniversary of the October 2003 “gas wars” massacre and the effort to bring Sánchez de Lozada to justice.

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