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...defense minister. “We would prefer to see Sánchez de Lozada and Sánchez Berzaín sent back to Bolivia to stand trial, but if that does not happen, the U.S. courts are the best alternative,” plaintiff Juan Patricio Quispe Mamani said in a statement. Sánchez de Lozada, Sánchez Berzaín, and their attorneys could not be reached for comment yesterday. —Staff writer Kevin Zhou can be reached at kzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...contract with a Suez-led consortium that was providing water services to Buenos Aires. The company also lost its contract to provide water to El Alto and La Paz, Bolivia, after massive protests beginning in 2003 over limited access for poor families. The leader of those protests, Abel Mamani, is the Minister of Water in the government of Evo Morales...
...hurts to be ignored," explains Juan Patricio Quispe Mamani, President of the Association of Relatives of those who Died in Defense of the Gas, who lost his brother in October 2003. "The U.S. preaches about human rights but it protects a human rights violator...
...brother's death can't be in vain," says Juan Patricio Quispe Mamani, whose brother was killed by the military October 2003. Quispe is president of the Association of Families of the Fallen in Defense of the Gas, an organization formed in honor of the 67 killed in 2003 and who demand the extradition of ex-President Gonzalo "Goni" Sanchez de Lozada from the U.S. - where he has lived since he resigned three years ago - so that he stand trial in Bolivia...
...four other western states that voted against the autonomy item, highlanders like Patricio Mamani of the working-class El Alto community note that regions like Santa Cruz are where most of Bolivia's prodigious natural gas is located - reserves that Morales nationalized earlier this year as part of his government's reversal of recent Washington-backed free-market reforms in the country. "The elite in Santa Cruz want autonomy in order to control the wealth there," said Mamani during the vote on July 2. "They want to live off those riches and not share with the rest of the country...