Bolivia to ask U.S. to extradite former president

Source: Xinhua

Bolivia to ask U.S. to extradite former president

2007-09-05 13:49:45

LIMA, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Bolivia's chief prosecutor Mario Uribe on Tuesday brought a genocide case against former president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, currently living in the United States, and asked the Supreme Court to present an extradition request, according to reports reaching here from La Paz.

Bolivia wants to try Sanchez de Lozada on genocide charges for his role in the 2003 violence in which more than 80 people were killed as police and military troops clashed with strikers protesting plans to export natural gas to the United States through Chile, said a communique released Tuesday.

The Bolivian Supreme Court should approve the extradition request as soon as possible and have Sanchez de Lozada extradited from the United States through diplomatic ways, said the communique.

Sanchez de Lozada, 77, was president for the first time from 1993 to 1997. Fourteen months into his second term he resigned in October 2003. Hours after he stepped down, Sanchez fled to the United States.




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He has friends in high places.

There should be another Statue of Liberty in Miami, looking South, encouraging all the cast-out neoliberal ex-Presidents, dictators-on-the-run, death squad members, and ordinary soldiers involved in massacres of their citizens at the behest of their right-wing governments, to find shelter and haven in South Florida with all of their brothers who have been arriving for many years. Undoubtedly they will be welcomed with open arms.

Thursday, October 5th, 2006
Bolivia Delegation Urges U.S. to Notify Ex-President Sanchez de Lozada of Obligation to Return to Trial for 2003 Massacre

A Bolivian delegation is in the United States this week to urge the U.S. government to notify Bolivia's ex-President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and two of his ministers of their obligation to return to Bolivia for trial in the deaths of 67 people and more than 400 wounded during October 2003. We speak with Rogelio Mayta, an attorney representing the families of those killed in the 2003 massacre.
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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.

~interview @ link~
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/05/1429255&mode=thread&tid=25





This administration only goes after the war criminals that stand inbetween them and global domination. All other war criminals & terrorists are kindred spirits.