This news on Bolivia–the country’s former President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada was served more than wine and cheese at a Washington luncheon Tuesday. U.S. citizens acting on behalf of Bolivian human rights organizations handed Sanchez de Lozada a summons to appear before a Bolivian investigation into human rights abuses under his administration. The allegations center around the deaths of more than 50 people during anti-government protests in the fall of 2003. Sanchez de Lozada fled the country shortly after, and now lives in Washington. Doug Hertzler, an American anthropologist who delivered the legal papers, said: “I approached him and I said Mr Sanchez de Lozada I hereby serve you with legal documents from the Bolivian government requiring you to appear in court to answer questions about the wrongful deaths of 2003. He took the documents from me, but the man standing next to him immediately began to say ’don’t do that’ and pushed me from the room. At that point I didn’t really see what happened after that, I’m pretty sure Mr. Sanchez de Lozada didn’t say anything he just had a kind of stunned look on his face.”
Ex-Bolivian President Served Legal Summons in Washington
HeadlineNov 03, 2005