Brujula Digital, El Diario: The National Committee for the Defense of Democracy (Conade) asserted that following the decision by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) regarding case 13,546, related to the events at the Hotel Las Américas in 2009, the Bolivian state will have to prosecute former President Evo Morales, who ordered the operation…
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In search of justice, 15 years later | En busca de justicia, 15 años después
Editorial, El Deber: In search of justice, the survivors of the Las Américas hotel murder have initiated legal action against the perpetrators of that crime. Three foreigners were extrajudicially executed and later accused of being terrorists and planning to assassinate former President Evo Morales, which served to build a case against opposition leaders from Santa…
Trial over death of Irish man Michael Dwyer collapses in Bolivia
Tom Hennigan reports for The Irish Times: Tipperary man was shot dead during police raid on hotel in Santa Cruz 11 years ago The criminal trial that followed the police raid in Bolivia which left Irish man Michael Dwyer dead has collapsed after prosecutors dropped all charges against the 39 accused. Mr Dwyer (24) was killed alongside two others…
Terrorism case: judge says that the government paid and directed the vote – Caso terrorismo: jueza dice que Gobierno pagaba y dirigía el voto
Carlos Quisbert reports for Pagina Siete: Terrorism case: judge says that the government paid and directed the vote Sonia Mamani said: “I got tired of being pressured, threatened, controlled and manipulated” by Judge Sixto Fernández. Three former ministers will be prosecuted. The Ministry of Government paid for the trips of the members of the First…
Congressman Dorado: Aguilera was part of the hoax in the Rózsa case
El Dia reports: ‘He was under Soza’s orders’ The opposition deputy Luis Felipe Dorado said on Sunday that the current director of the Special Force of Fight Against Crime (Felcc) Santa Cruz, Colonel Jhonny Aguilera, was part of the hoax in the Rózsa case that caused the death of three foreigners during the police raid…
Ten years on, family of Irishman killed in Bolivia still wait for answers
Tom Hennigan reports for The Irish Times: Investigation into death of Michael Dwyer in police raid held up by ‘farcical’ related trial Michael Dwyer: The Bolivian state’s version of what happened leading up to and during the police raid in which Dwyer was killed has been contradicted by eyewitnesses and leaked video from inside…
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