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Independent Interdisciplinary Expert Group (GIEI) Report – English Summary, BACKGROUND ON BOLIVIA’S 2019 CRISIS

Jul 21, 2022

*Estelle Shaya translated and summarized this document in coordination with Carolina Gálvez and Kathryn Ledebur.

AIN translated and summarized the July 23, 2021, Interamerican Human Rights Commission Independent Interdisciplinary Expert Group (GIEI) report. The mandate of the GIEI was to investigate violence and human rights violations in Bolivia from September 1, 2019, to December 31, 2019. AIN will publish this summary by section and eventually release a complete breakdown of the report. The following sections are not direct translations. AIN condensed information into timelines, tables, victim narratives, and bullet points, remaining true to the original content of the GIEI report. The corresponding pages of the original report are cited for each section. All photos, maps, and footnotes explaining organizations mentioned in the text are AIN additions and not included in the official GIEI report.