Bolivia, dictatorship and narco-state, 18 years after the October 2003 coup
Carlos Sánchez Berzaín October 21, 2021 (Interamerican Institute for Democracy) On October 17, 2003, Bolivian Constitutional President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada was the victim of a coup d’état instigated by the fallacy of a supposed “gas war”, and forced to resign. The then “cocalero” leader Evo Morales and the conspirators, including Vice President Carlos Mesa, fractured the democratic system by ... Leer Más »