Bolivia to ask U.S. to
extradite former
president
Bolivia's chief
prosecutor Mario Uribe
on Tuesday brought a
genocide case against
former president Gonzalo
Sanchez de Lozada,
currently living in the
United States, and asked
the Supreme Court to
present an extradition
request, according to
reports reaching here
from La Paz.
Bolivia wants to try
Sanchez de Lozada on
genocide charges for his
role in the 2003
violence in which more
than 80 people were
killed as police and
military troops clashed
with strikers protesting
plans to export natural
gas to the United States
through Chile, said a
communique released
Tuesday.
The Bolivian Supreme
Court should approve the
extradition request as
soon as possible and
have Sanchez de Lozada
extradited from the
United States through
diplomatic ways, said
the communique.
Sanchez de Lozada, 77,
was president for the
first time from 1993 to
1997. Fourteen months
into his second term he
resigned in October
2003. Hours after he
stepped down, Sanchez
fled to the United
States.
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