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...have galvanized Morales. He learned his own politics on the streets, leading protests by his fellow coca growers, and he may have been hesitant to use force in light of Bolivia's recent history: In October 2003, 67 people were killed and more than 400 wounded when then-President Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada sent the military out against demonstrators disrupting road traffic to protest against a plan to export natural gas to Chile. The violence forced Goni to resign and flee to the U.S., where he remains. Morales has far more political support than Goni, but the memory...
...dollars should Morales win. Morales was an underdog at the time, but the threat drove his numbers through the roof - such is the anti-Yanqui sentiment in Bolivia. Indeed, some observers say it was Rocha's slip-up that forced a run-off between Morales and the eventual winner, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada...
...week before the flap with the court, Uribe launched a tirade against Gonzalo Guillen, correspondent for the Miami-based El Nuevo Herald, sister paper to the Miami Herald. Uribe said in radio interviews that the reporter had "dedicated his journalistic career to infamy and lies" aimed at discrediting the President. Guillen says he received 24 separate threats on his life after Uribe's comments and left the country days later. Specifically, Uribe accused Guillen of being the ghost writer of a tell-all book by Virginia Vallejo, once the lover of legendary drug lord Pablo Escobar. Guillen denies having anything...
...with other human rights lawyers, are among the most high-profile cases in the 24-year history of the Law School’s Human Rights Program, the clinic’s parent organization. The 10 plaintiffs—all Bolivian natives—are seeking compensatory damages against Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada y Sánchez Bustamante, the ex-president of Bolivia, and Jose Carlos Sánchez Berzaín, the former minister of defense. According to the lawsuits, Sánchez de Lozada and Sánchez Berzaín told security forces...
...Ambassador in Bolivia, Philip Goldberg, stated Monday that the extradition of Sanchez de Lozada is "theoretically possible" but that because the issue was "judicial, not political," he deferred comment to the U.S. Department of Justice. The DOJ did not return TIME's repeated calls; nor did Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada himself. The Bolivia-U.S. extradition treaty allows for an exemption for people accused of "political offenses," and lawyers in Bolivia expect the former president's lawyers to claim such a status for their client. Indeed, a longtime friend of Sanchez de Lozada, Miami-based consultant Beatrice Rangel, alleges that...