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Jul 01, 1930 La Paz, La Paz Department, Bolivia 93 years old
President of Bolivia
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About Gonzalo Sánchez De Lozada
- Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada y Sánchez de Bustamante (born July 1, 1930), familiarly known as "Goni", is a Bolivian politician and businessman, who served as President of Bolivia for two non-consecutive terms.
- He is a lifelong member of the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR).
- As Minister of Planning in the government of President Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Sánchez de Lozada used "shock therapy" in 1985 to cut hyperinflation from an estimated 25,000% to a single digit within a period of less than 6 weeks. Sánchez de Lozada was twice elected President of Bolivia, both times on the MNR ticket.
- During his first term (1993–1997), he initiated a series of landmark social, economic and constitutional reforms.
- Elected to a second term in 2002, he struggled with protests and events in October 2003 related to the Bolivian gas conflict.
- Official reports said that 59 protesters, soldiers and policemen died; most deaths were of protesters or bystanders.
- He resigned and went into exile in the United States in October 2003.
- In March 2006, he resigned the leadership of the MNR.The government of Evo Morales has unsuccessfully been seeking his extradition from the US to stand a political trial for the events of 2003.
- Victims' representatives have pursued compensatory damages for extrajudicial killings in a suit against him in the United States under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS).
- In 2014 the US District Court in Florida ruled the case could proceed under the Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA).
- The trial, which began on March 5, 2018 and concluded on May 30, 2018, found Sánchez de Lozada and his former defense minister Carlos Sanchez Berzaín not liable for the civilian deaths after the judge declared that there was "insufficient evidence" to do so.
