EVO MORALES Dopehead, Microcephalic buffon,cretin,feeble minded. This Cretin birdbrain overtrows a constitutional Democratic Goverment and then he procecute all the liders? La Paz Internet

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE EVENTS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF GONZALO SANCHEZ DE LOZADA. AND THE POLITICAL PERSECUTION AGAINST, FORMER PRESIDENTS, GOVERNORS, MAYORS, JUDGES, CORPORATE EXECUTIVES, ETC, ETC. '' WICH HUNT'' CARRIED OUT BY THE AUTHORITARIAN AND AUTOCRATIC STATE OF COCAINERO NARCOTRAFICANT EVO MORALES.

The Story of an Injustice

Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, overthrown during his second term through a violent insurrection whose leaders called for a civil war, is victim of a political persecution carried out by the very leaders who led his overthrow and who now govern Bolivia. The former president and his cabinet of Ministers are being tried in a trial of Political Responsibilities (malfeasance) in which they are accused of, among others, genocide, homicide, grave lesions, crimes against the press, breaking and entering, torture, and resolutions in violation of the Constitution and the Law. After a thorough analysis of what occurred during the bloody overthrow of President Sanchez de Lozada, it is clear that the president is innocent of the charges against him and that in any case, those who now govern Bolivia are guilty of innumerable crimes committed during those tragic days. Beyond this, however, the government has systematically violated the rights of those being processed in this trial, rights which may be found in the Bolivian Penal Code, acting within a clear framework of political persecution. In this section of the website, the reader will find information regarding what really happened during the October 2003 overthrow of Sanchez de Lozada, the political persecution being carried out, and material that demonstrates this government is engaged in a witch hunt of all those who its totalitarian project.

Below you will find a brief introduction and summary of the case. More detailed information may be found in the remaining sections of Political Persecution.

On October 17th 2003 President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada was forced to sign his letter of resignation to the presidency of Bolivia. (See letter of resignation here) The President presented his resignation after several weeks of a violent siege led by several union leaders, among them, Evo Morales Ayma, Felipe Quispe Huanka, David Vargas, and Roberto de la Cruz. The violence used by these insurgent elements went to the extreme of taking an entire town hostage (Sorata), holding more than 1,000 Bolivian and foreign tourists hostage. After several days of captivity, and demands from Bolivian public opinion and several embassies, the president sent in a rescue convoy that, upon its return, was ambushed and fired upon by rebels in the hills of Warisata (a Felipe Quispe Stronghold). Deaths were reported on both sides and the convoy arrived in La Paz later that night with hundreds of terrified rescued civilians.

The deaths caused by the rebels in Warisata are then used as a political rallying instrument by Felipe Quispe and his allies, who denounce a massacre in Warisata. The illegal and openly seditious Estado Mayor del Pueblo (General Command of the People, this was a play on the Bolivian term used to describe the Military Chiefs of Staff, Estado Mayor), was created and integrated by Felipe Quispe, David Vargas, Roberto de la Cruz, and other union leaders. The General Command of the People decides to lay siege on the city of La Paz with the publicly announced purpose of overthrowing the constitutional government and the, according to them, capitalist neoliberal model of government. Quispe publicly declares that he doesn't care if the residents of the capital die of hunger, and the siege leaves the city without food, gasoline, and other basic goods for almost a week. With an imminent humanitarian crisis looming over the civilian population who feel the effects of a food and gasoline shortage (leaving even ambulances without gas), and the evacuation of foreign nationals by their respective embassies, the President signs a Decree which orders the military to escort a gasoline convoy from the Senkata plant in El Alto to La Paz. The decree does not order a massacre, but rather solely authorizes the defense of the gasoline convoy (highly flammable), which is threatened by the rebels with firearms, dynamite and molotov cocktails. (See copy of the Decree here)

The gasoline convoy is attacked on its way to La Paz and the military use their firearms in defense of their lives and the lives of the rebels themselves who do not calculate the magnitude of the explosion should a tanker explode. More deaths occur during the rebel attack, the total number of deaths in the weeks of the October 2003 insurrection reach 50, between civilians, military and police officers. President Sanchez de Lozada presents his resignation on Cotober 17th in an attempt to put and end to the crisis and to ensure the continuity of the democratic system in place in Bolivia until then. The vice-president, Carlos Mesa is appointed President by Congress that very night in concordance with Bolivian succession rules, he does so under threats from the Bolivian union leaders who led the overthrow of Sanchez de Lozada to do the same to him should he not accept their agenda. The rebels agenda imposed upon Carlos Mesa includes the trial against Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, Evo Morales is the accusing part in the accusation presented against the former President.

In the clear political intent of appeasing the insurgent groups, President Carlos Mesa issues Supreme Decree 27237 which grants amnesty to all the protagonists of the October 2003 civilian coup (freeing the insurgents who precipitated the crisis, among them Evo Morales, from facing trial), the decree is then amended to specify that the amnesty does not apply to the former government officials, and is only valid for the leaders of the social movements.

The Bolivian Congress then approves the initiation of a Trial of Political Responsibilities against the former president and his ministers, it does so surrounded and under siege by followers of the October 2003 insurgents that threaten to burn down the congress should it not approve the trial. On July 28th 2004, the attorneys assigned to the case Jimmy Pareja Bonifaz, Marco Antonio Nina Rodriguez, and Fenrando Cortez Flores, present the results of their investigation and recommend shelving the case. They also justify the actions carried out by the police and the military, saying they acted within the framework of the constitution and the laws, and in legitimate defense of their lives, the lives of others, and the constitutional government. They also conclude that the use of force by the armed forces and police was proportional to the violence used by the insurgents. These conclusions, however, are not accepted by the government of Carlos Mesa as they do not support the thesis defended by his government and the union leaders on whose whims depend his continuity as President. The attorneys are removed and persecuted, having to write a letter to the Interamerican commission of Human Rights on September 1st 2004 in which they denounce the political interference with their investigations and the political persecution they are suffering, they conclude by asking for protection from the Commission.

President Carlos Mesa is then overthrown by the same insurgent elements that do not respect democracy that overthrew Sanchez de Lozada, running the same fate as his predecessor. The rebels do not allow for a constitutional succession this time around and force those constitutionally next in line to resign (the presidents of the Senate and the Camber of deputies) and allow the president of the Supreme Court to lead a 6 month interim government that calls for elections. Evo Morales Ayma, one of the main instigators and active leaders of the overthrow of Presidents Sanchez de Lozada and Carlos Mesa is elected president of Bolivia. Morales is now the President of Bolivia, while at the same time being the accusing part in the trial being led against Sanchez de Lozada and his ministers, and he uses all the mechanisms, legal and illegal, to promote the trial against the former president whom he violently overthrew in 2003.

The political persecution being carried out by this government occupies several fronts, the foremost being in the media. The president does not lose a moment to condemn the former president and his cabinet in countless public events, declaring him guilty without even waiting for the trial to begin. The President also calls on the United States to extradite the genocide, calls on the judiciary (constituting an interference on an independent branch of government which by law must not be influenced by third parties in its decisions) to declare Goni guilty, or to accelerate his trial, he creates official government commissions in charge of monitoring and promoting the trial, gives orders to the Attorney General (which according to Bolivian law must act independently) which are followed immediately, makes the Bolivian ambassador to the USs main mission the extradition of Goni and the defamation campaign against him in that country, arbitrarily and illegaly designates four ministers to the Supreme Court who are publicly asked to expedite the trial against Goni (to this effect the 4 evista ministers are placed in the 1st and 2nd penal courts which are the ones in charge of the trials of political responsibilities), he rallies the masses into organizing marches such as the one which attempted to take the embassy of the United States in La Paz, demanding the extradition of Sanchez de Lozada and Sanchez Berzain (and thus violating the duty to defend the security of a foreign embassy stipulated in international law), and countless other acts which are unconstitutional, illegal, and violatary of the rights guaranteed by the Bolivian Penal Code and the Constitution.

The government of Evo Morales has violated the independence of the law guaranteed by countless Bolivian laws. Below, two of the most important which have been repeatedly violated in the trial against Sanchez de Lozada:

Criminal Procedure Code

Article 3. (Impartiality and Independence)

Judges will be impartial and independent, subjected only to the Constitution, International Conventions and Treaties in force and to the laws.

Under no circumstances, the State bodies, nor natural or juridical persons will interfere in the substantiation of a specific process. In the case of interference, the Judge will inform the Supreme Court of Justice on the facts which affect its independence. When the interference comes from the same Judicial Power, the report shall be presented to the Council of the Judicature or to the National Congress.

Organic Law of the Attorney Generals Office

Article 3 PURPOSE

The Attorney Generals Office is a constitutional body whose purpose is to promote justice, defend the legality, the interests of the State and society, representing them in conformity with the provisions of the Constitution and the Laws of the Republic.

The Attorney Generals Office, in compliance with its function, has independence.

The Bolivian Penal Code expressly prohibits the interference of a natural or juridical persons, or of any state body in a process. The Attorney Generals office must also have a functional independence, it is clear that the current Attorney General and the attorneys assigned to the case are not independent, nor do they act in an independent manner.

On December 18, 2006, the Chief Prosecutor filed an indictment against SDL charging him with resolutions in violation of the Constitution and the Law, dereliction of duty, and genocide in the form of bloody massacre. The indictment requested that the Supreme Court accept the charges and find SDL in contempt of court. The Supreme Court of Bolivia declined to accept the indictment without first providing the defendants with proper notice and giving them an opportunity to submit declarations as required by Bolivian law. To make an end-run around this legal constraint, on December 30, 2006, President Morales hand-picked four new Supreme Court justices and appointed them by decree without seeking or receiving the approval of the Congress. To expedite criminal cases against SDL and his other political enemies, President Morales had these justices assigned to the courts two criminal chambers, which were overseeing the charges related to the 2003 events.

To no ones great surprise, the reconstituted Supreme Court took on as one of its first tasks to permit President Morales to prosecute SDL and his ministers. In mid-January, 2007, just two weeks after their appointments, the justices appointed by President Morales issued Supreme Writs in which President Morales justices: (1) declared SDL and his ministers to have been notified; (2) stripped them of the right to appear in court to submit a declaration, reasoning that they would not appear; (3) simultaneously declared that they were in contempt for failing to appear; (4) approved the indictments submitted by the Chief Prosecutor in mid-December; and (5) ordered that they be arrested and brought to court.

In May 2007, the Constitutional Tribunal determined that the four justices whom Morales had hand-picked and appointed without congressional approval must cease their functions immediately, as they had exceeded the 90 days permitted of interim justices. Morales immediately responded by denouncing this ruling and requesting that the justices be tried for misfeasance and failure to fulfill their judicial responsibilities. The Constitutional Tribunal has been left with only one minister, thus not able to reach the necessary quorum to function, effectively leaving the country without the body in charge of guaranteeing the constitution and its rights.

The trial being carried out and by this government against Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and his ministers is nothing more than a political lynching. The government is doing in the courts what it could not do in October, eliminate the former president. The government of Evo Morales does not respect the law nor the constitution, as his government has demonstrated in innumerable cases. Perhaps the most telling declaration made by Morales regarding his view on the law was the following made in an interview to a Bolivian daily in August 2008, I have learned that above what is legal is what is political. Thats why when my advisors tell me, Evo, what you are doing is illegal.... I tell them: if its illegal....Make it legal!! Thats what you studied for. It is clear that what occurred in October 2003 must be investigated, and those responsible be held accountable. However, the conditions in Bolivia are not given for a transparent, independent investigation, much less a trial. The witch hunt carried out by Evo Morales includes 5 former presidents, ministers of the Constitutional Tribunal, and governors of the opposition.