A U.S. court found former Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada responsible for the 2003 extrajudicial killing of more than 50 people, mostly Indigenous Aymara, in El Alto, Bolivia. He’ll have to pay US$10 million to the nine families of victims who brought the case to court.

After six tense days and 34 hours of jury deliberation, a Fort Lauderdale, Florida federal court found Sanchez guilty of, on Oct. 17, 2003, directing the national military to open fire via tanks and helicopters on a neighborhood in the city of El Alto, just outside of the capital of La Paz. ...

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