Two years after the death of ten people in the crackdown consecutive events forced departure of President Evo Morales, none of those responsible for the violence has been judged.
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She clings to the framed photo of her son, squeezing against her chest, shoulders covered with a large black shawl. “My son came out, he said he would return in half an hour, but on the way he died, tells a sob Maria Condori. We know nothing of what happened to him. at the health post, we saw bloodied, bullet had pierced his skull. he left without saying goodbye. “Rudy Vasquez Condori was 23, he worked in a mining company and economically supported the parental home. It is one of ten people killed by security forces November 19, 2019 at Senkata, a district of the city of El Alto, outside La Paz.
Alongside Maria Condori, widows and other mothers of boys mostly murdered in what international organizations have called a “massacre”. They met two years after these bloody facts to require justice and compensation. To date, a handful of military and police have been placed in pre-trial detention in this case. None has yet been found.
“It’s a big pain to remember that day, but it takes people to hear the truth. The dead are not terrorists or criminals as did believe the government of the day [directed by former interim president Jeanine Añez (2019-2020), in custody since March 2021 for “sedition” and “terrorism” in the case known as the “golpe” (coup)]. They were massacred ” gets carried away Neylista Ruiz Quispe. In his back, she wears a young child. She was pregnant when her husband was killed. They were dating for a prenatal check.
Recovery in brutal hand
In November 2019, the country is plagued by a major political crisis. After the elections that the opposition and the Organization of American States consider flawed, President Evo Morales was forced to resign on 10 November. On the 12th, the Vice President of the Senate, Jeanine Añez, proclaimed himself president in the order of succession, but without a quorum of Parliament. This self-proclamation and the first steps that follow – he entered the presidential palace a Bible hand and rallies of his supporters burning the Whipala, the flag symbol of a multiethnic nation – trigger the anger of indigenous peoples, particularly Aymara, the ethnic majority which resulted in Morales.
November 19, 2019, as the country plunged into violence, the inhabitants of El Alto, historic stronghold of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) party of Evo Morales, blocking the entrance to the refinery liquid gas and petrol Senkata in protest. They want to prevent the distribution of fuel to La Paz. The takeover by the security forces will be brutal. A decree signed two days after the takeover of Jeanine Añez, exempts the military prosecution in the exercise of their functions. It will be denounced by international organizations as a “license to kill”.
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