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Bolivia’s October 2019 national elections convulsed the country as fraud allegations triggered widespread protests and social conflict. Facing a national police mutiny and a public warning from the military to step down, then-President Evo Morales resigned and fled Bolivia. Amid the turmoil, security forces backed the installation of legislator Jeanine Áñez as interim president and cracked down on demonstrations in the towns of Sacaba and Senkata, killing at least 20 people and injuring hundreds more. Preliminary reporting by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) characterized the two episodes as massacres.
Please join USIP and WOLA for an in-depth discussion of the GIEI’s findings and an examination of how the GIEI’s recommendations can promote the kind of accountability, healing and common understanding across Bolivia’s political and identity divides that could ultimately prevent the repetition of the conflict, violence and human rights violations that marked the country’s 2019 electoral crisis.
Details/Detalles del evento:
Monday – Monday, December 13, 2021
Time: 2:00pm – 4:00pm EST
Location: Online Event