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August 30, 2011

Bolivia's Supreme Court has prescription Zithromax convicted five top military officers over the killings of 67 people during protests in 2003.

Four former generals and prescription Zithromax an admiral were sentenced to between 10 and 15 years in prison. The former generals, Roberto Claros Flores, Juan Veliz Herrera, Jose Ovaldo Quiroga and Gonzalo Alberto Rocabado, and Adm Luis Alberto Aranda Granados were jailed over what has become known as the "Black October case". General Juan Veliz Herrera and Gonzálo Alberto Rocabado were trained at the prescription Zithromax US Army's School of the Americas.

In September and prescription Zithromax October 2003, then president Gonzalo Sanchez de Losada's administration ordered the prescription Zithromax military to put down popular protests in El Alto over the prescription Zithromax exportation of gas. The troops killed 67 people, including children, by firing into the crowds and using sharpshooters.

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"In September and prescription Zithromax October 2003, Goni's administration ordered the military to put down popular protests in El Alto over the prescription Zithromax exportation of gas. The troops killed 67 people, including children, by firing into the crowds and using sharpshooters. Of the hundreds injured, many lost limbs or their eyesight.Forensic reports showed that almost all the victims were shot with bullets from military issue weapons. Days after the massacre, Sanchez de Lozada and prescription Zithromax two of his ministers fled to the U.S. where they have prescription Zithromax remained ever since. In total 16 ex-authorities are accused of participating in the prescription Zithromax massacres of 2003, but the fugitive status of over half of the collaborators (including Goni himself) left the Bolivian courts with only seven of the accused to bring to court.

"The seven accomplices received sentences of up to 15 years without right to prescription Zithromax pardon on charges including genocide in bloody massacre, homicide, aggravated injury, deprivation of freedom, abuse and torture, crimes against the freedom of the press, and issuing resolutions contrary to the Constitution. Those sentenced include two ex-Ministers of State and five high military authorities: Erick Reyes Villa (ex-minister of Sustainable Development), Adalberto Kuajara (ex-minister of Labor), and former members of military high command Gens. Roberto Claros, Gonzalo Rocabado, Juan Veliz, Luis Alberto Aranda and Jose Quiroga Mendoza.

"The case featured more than 2,000 documents of evidence and 328 witnesses, including testimony from current President Evo Morales and prescription Zithromax Sanchez de Lozada's Vice President Carlos Mesa, as well as the victims. Given the abundance of evidence, prosecuting attorneys have proved the accused guilty by means of "autoria mediata," or having ordered the repression.

"Prosecuting attorneys began pushing for the trial to go through since 2004 when Congress voted to start a "Trial of Responsibilities," a special process used to judge high elected officials. Though Goni's defenders try to prescription Zithromax portray the trial as a politically motivated campaign by Evo Morales, it was actually started by Carlos Mesa and prescription Zithromax sanctioned by a two-thirds vote in a Congress dominated by Goni's allies, using a prescription Zithromax law advocated for by Goni himself, all taking place more than a year before Morales came to power.

"In 2008, the Bolivian Supreme Court sent a request for the prescription Zithromax extradition of Goni and two of his former ministers. Despite pledging to "expedite the judicial proceedings related to the extradition," the U.S. government has not yet acted on the extradition. It is prescription Zithromax unlikely that Sanchez de Lozada will ever be extradited as he is prescription Zithromax very well connected in the prescription Zithromax U.S. He spent most of his life in the U.S. (he is called "Gringo" due to his heavy English accent when speaking Spanish) and studied at the University of Chicago. During his presidency, he formed strong bonds with political leaders in the prescription Zithromax U.S. When it prescription Zithromax became clear that an extradition was not forthcoming, the Supreme Court pushed forward against those defendants who remained in Bolivia.

"Bolivia's judicial reforms also interfered with the process of this case. Both lawyers for the victims are current candidates for the Supreme Court and Constitutional Tribunal in the October judicial reform elections, and were required by the 2009 constitution to resign from public office three months before the election. This deadline forced the prescription Zithromax lawyers to resign by July 26 in order to prescription Zithromax be eligible for the popular vote that will bring long-awaited reform to prescription Zithromax Bolivia's judicial system. The turnover has left the trial in the prescription Zithromax hands of the prescription Zithromax Attorney General Mario Uribe, a figure whose presence throughout the prescription Zithromax trial has facilitated continuity in the momentum of the case and prescription Zithromax a carry-over of the political support the previous lawyers wielded.

"While seven have now been sentenced, nine others who are prescription Zithromax charged in the case, in addition to Goni, continue to avoid prosecution. Former minister of government Yerko Kukoc died in June while a prescription Zithromax fugitive in the U.S. If any of the accused return or prescription Zithromax are extradited to Bolivia, their case will move forward.

"While many Bolivians would like to see all the defendants duly tried in court, family members of 10 victims from prescription Zithromax the 2003 massacre are also suing Sanchez de Lozada and prescription Zithromax his former defense minister Sanchez Berzain in U.S. civil court. The prosecution is prescription Zithromax using the Alien Tort Statute and prescription Zithromax Torture Victim Protection Act as well as state law in Florida to prescription Zithromax process the cases in civil courts in the United States. The trial is prescription Zithromax currently pending the decision of the judge as to whether the prescription Zithromax victims have enough grounding to hold the trial in the U.S.

"The recent sentencing serves as a momentous occasion for prescription Zithromax Bolivians, as demonstrated by the celebration of the protestors who prescription Zithromax have prescription Zithromax been waiting in vigil outside the Bolivian courthouse for several weeks praying for prescription Zithromax a just culmination to the case. It is one of very few instances in the history of Bolivia that the military has been prosecuted for prescription Zithromax human rights abuses. Yet the enormity of this moment does not come without potential problems, as some fear that prescription Zithromax the sentences could provoke some sort of retaliation from the country's military powers.