Bolivia: after ten years of waiting, victims of dictatorships will be compensated by the State
Barracks set up on the central avenues of La Paz in Bolivia by victims of the dictatorship who have been protesting for years for reparations from the state.
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On Sunday August 21, Bolivian President Luis Arce announced compensation for more than 1,700 victims of the dictatorships that bloodied the country from 1964 to 1982. An agreement was signed between the Head of State and the victims' associations.
After 10 years of waiting, some of the victims will be compensated, promised the Bolivian government.
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With our correspondent in La Paz,
Alice Campaignolle
Exactly 1,714 people will be compensated for having been victims of the military dictatorships in Bolivia.
The country, like all its neighbors, experienced
the Condor Plan
from the 1950s, a US-backed operation of political repression in the heart of Latin America to prevent the left from taking power.
Opponents were killed, tortured or
disappeared overnight
.
The victims and their families had therefore been fighting for ten years to receive the compensation due to them since a law of 2004.
La firma de este Acuerdo Nacional con las Víctimas de la Dictadura Militar entre 1964 y 1982, en la que hoy participamos, est un homenaje a todas y cada una de las mujeres y hombres valientes que cayeron resistiendo los golpes de Estado y las dictaduras militares.
¡Honor y gloria!
pic.twitter.com/CGE6YglKun
— Luis Alberto Arce Catacora (Lucho Arce) (@LuchoXBolivia) August 21, 2022
Still more than 4,500 files to review
But there is still a long way to go to put an end to the crimes of dictatorships, as explained by Victoria Lopez, tortured to the point of losing the child she was carrying: “
Don't erase us from history.
We have survived the crimes of the Condor Plan and we want the investigations to continue so that those who committed these crimes against humanity do not go unpunished.
And let's not forget our comrades whose cases are still pending, those who are victims, but whose files have not yet been processed.
»
Because they are more than 4,500 to still ask that their files be examined to receive the same compensation.
About $14 million is expected to be split among the victims.
On Sunday, the Head of State paid tribute to these human rights defenders, and he promised not to forget them.
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