BBC - Bolivia ex-leader on death charge

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Bolivia ex-leader on death charge

Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada was forced to step down in 2003
Bolivia's ex-President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and his ousted cabinet have been formally charged with genocide.
The indictment by the Attorney General's office comes four months after the Bolivian Congress voted to put the former president on trial.

The charge relates to the deaths of at least 60 people in protests at government plans to export natural gas.

Mr Sanchez de Lozada, 74, denies allowing his security forces to use violence against the demonstrators.

Fifteen of his former ministers are also accused of involvement.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4285803.stm

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1. Another US lap dog up on charges--background article

Goni, the president with the gringo accent.

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The A-B-C of Popular Revolt
Or, How They Got Rid of a Tyrant in Bolivia

LA PAZ, BOLIVIA; OCTOBER 17, 2003: It wasn’t a coup. It was the people.

And nobody, not even Viceroy David Greenlee, could stop it.

Gonzalo “Goni” Sánchez de Lozada had to resign from the Bolivian presidency after weeks of popular mobilizations, for having massacred the people, for lying and trying to hang on to power by all means necessary. Now, vigilant and festive in the streets, the Bolivian people are the live expression of a democracy constructed from below.

In these sentences, kind readers, we will try to give you the clearest picture possible of what has occured in this country where the people have rewritten history…

A. Who and How

“If Goni wants money, let him sell his wife,” the women and men of deep “Bolivia Bronca” began to chant two months ago. It all began there: The sale of the country’s natural gas reserves, a multi-billion dollar business deal that the administration of Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada tried to make with the multinationals Pacific LNG and Sempra, passing a gas pipeline through Chile to the Pacific. “Not the multinationals, nor the Chileans, should benefit from the Bolivian people’s wealth… We are going to recover our natural resources,” was what Congressman Evo Morales, leader of the coca growers, said during a session of the national Congress.

http://www.narconews.com/print.php3?ArticleID=885〈=en

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2. Viva Democracy and People Power in ALL of South America!

South America: A SHINING example of ethics and democracy!!!!


Viva Chavez!


Viva LULA!

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Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela connects to the world-wide movement against capitalist globalization.

We in the US can dream, can't we?!? :wow: :bounce: :+

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