Morales wants ex-Bolivia official expelled

[Judi Lynn]

Monday, February 13, 2006 · Last updated 7:34 p.m. PT

Morales wants ex-Bolivia official expelled

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LA PAZ, Bolivia -- President Evo Morales appealed to the Bush administration to extradite a former Bolivian leader who fled to the United States amid an uprising that left about 60 people dead after a military crackdown on demonstrators.

If extradited, former President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada could face a trial for the civilian deaths. Sanchez de Lozada is living in Washington after fleeing in 2003.

"I am calling on, asking my colleague Bush and his government to do justice together for the people," said Morales after presiding over a memorial ceremony for the victims of a separate street clashes in February 2003 that left more than 32 dead.

Bolivian government attempts to notify the former president of the charges have been unsuccessful. A formal extradition request is being prepared.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1102AP_Bolivia_Extradition_Request.html

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Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

Mercosur
Monday, 13 February

Morales requests US extradition of former president

Bolivian president Evo Morales called on his United States counterpart George W. Bush, to expel former Bolivian leader Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada to face charges for his alleged responsibility in the violence that broke out during his administration.
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The former president lives in Chicago, United States, since October 2003 when a wave of nationwide street protests forced him to resign and seek asylum abroad along with two of his Cabinet ministers.

The Bolivian Congress authorized the opening of a legal process on the events which took place before Mr. Sanchez de Lozada resignation when 60 people were killed and 142 injured.

Morales said that Washington should listen to the "request of the people and the families of the victims of that massacre" referring to the February 2003 violence.

"How much better if the government of the United States expelled and withdrew the asylum granted to these important figures”, he said.
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http://www.mercopress.com/Detalle.asp?NUM=7213



Evo Morales

[Mika]

1. So Bolivia has a "Posada" type hiding in the US also.

What is amazing about this story is that this cretin isn't living in Miami (where most of the Latin American & Caribbean cretins, like toxic fungus, seem to attach themselves).

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. He seems like a very polite man. He actually referred to

the waste of human DNA as "colleague". Good for him.

[Peace Patriot]

3. Thanks for the pix! I love this contrast of faces.

Morales: sweetness, light, generosity, humility, earth-centered strength, and a warm, inclusive intelligence.

Sanchez: greed, arrogance, fraudulence, duplicity, and a bullying, conniving cunning (I won't dignify it as "intelligence").

You can actually SEE it in their faces--this amazing contrast of qualities.