Legal Opinion
Rojas Mamani v. Sanchez Berzain
District Court, S.D. Florida
Decided June 19, 2009No. 07-22459-CIV-JORDAN, 08-21063-CIV-JORDANPublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order Dismissing TVPA Claims Without Prejudice
ADALBERTO JORDAN, District Judge.
In this case, the plaintiffs — all citizens of Bolivia — seek compensatory and punitive damages from Gonzalo Daniel Sanchez de Lozada Sanchez Bustamante, the former President of Bolivia, and Jose Carlos Sanchez Berzain, the former Minister of Defense of Bolivia. The plaintiffs allege that Mr. Lozada and Mr. Berzain, in September and October of 2003, directed the Bolivian military and police to carry out extra-judicial killings of Bolivian citizens who were members of Bolivia’s indigenous Aymara community in the…
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