After a 16-year legal battle, former head of state Gonzalo "Goni" Sánchez de Lozada must compensate the families of victims extrajudicially killed in the 2003 Gas War.
This week, a jury found Bolivia’s former president, Gonzalo “Goni” Sánchez de Lozada and his Minister of Defense guilty of extrajudicial killings in 2003 in a landmark case. For their victims, it’s a welcome victory.
The new film Our Brand is Crisis doesn’t tell us how a president who authorized the massacre of indigenous Bolivians has lived with impunity in the U.S. for 12 years.
