Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada

Elected president of Bolivia, 1993. Innaugurated August, 1993. name is "Gonzalo Sánchez de Losada."

Encarta Entry: Mining entrepreneur Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada won next presidential elections, held in June 1993. Sanchez de Lozada's vice president, Victor Hugo Cardenas, was the first Native American to such a high office in Bolivia. Sanchez de Lozada worked to implement number of reforms intended to give more economic and political power Bolivia's Native American majority. He oversaw a redistribution of federal budget that increased money for roads, schools, and water projects in largely rural areas. The government also legalized native organizations and the practice of folk medicine, both of which had previously been outlawed. In addition, the government allowed education in Spanish and Native American dialects in schools that previously had been prohibited from teaching any language other than Spanish. Re-elected President for 2nd term in July,2002.

Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada y Sánchez Bustamante (La Paz, 1 de julio de 1930) es un político y empresario boliviano. Presidente de Bolivia en dos ocasiones (1993-1997; 2002-2003). Fue un estrecho colaborador del expresidente Víctor Paz Estenssoro del cual fue ministro de Planeamiento y Coordinación (Economía) en su último período de gobierno (1985-1989). Perteneciente al Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR), partido precursor de la revolución nacionalista de 1952, que incluyó medidas como la reforma agraria, el sufragio universal, la reforma educativa, la nacionalización de las minas. Entre la mitad de la década de los '80 y toda la década de los '90, con su partido fue gestor de la política económica neoliberal en Bolivia.

Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, popularmente conocido como "Goni", nació en el pueblo de Punata en el Valle alto de la ciudad de Cochabamba, Bolivia el 1 de julio de 1930. Su abuelo materno fue Daniel Sánchez Bustamente, fundador a comienzos del siglo XX de las primeras escuelas fiscales y la primera escuela normal de formación de maestros, por lo que luego fue proclamado "Maestro de la Juventud Boliviana” a su muerte en 1933. Hijo de Enrique Sánchez de Lozada Irigoyen, transcurrió parte de su niñez y juventud en los Estados Unidos, por ser su padre primero diplomático en Washington DC (1931-1936) y luego exiliado durante 16 años (1936-1952). Por esta razón, domina a la perfección el idioma inglés y al hablar español, tiene un marcado acento estadounidense. wikipedia

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Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada Sánchez Bustamante (born 1 July 1930), often referred to as Goni, is a Bolivian businessman and politician who served as the 61st president of Bolivia from 1993 to 1997 and from 2002 to 2003. A member of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement, he previously served as minister of planning and coordination under Víctor Paz Estenssoro and succeeded him as the MNR's national chief in 1990.

As minister of planning, Sánchez de Lozada employed "shock therapy" in 1985 to cut hyperinflation from an estimated 25,000% to a single digit within a period of less than six 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. According to official reports, 59 protestors, ten soldiers and sixteen policemen died in confrontations. As a result of the violent clashes, Sánchez de Lozada resigned and went into exile in the United States. In March 2006, he resigned the leadership of the MNR.

The governments of Evo Morales and Luis Arce have unsuccessfully sought his extradition from the U.S. to stand 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 U.S. District Court in Florida ruled the case could proceed under the Torture Victim Protection Act (TVPA). The trial, which began on 5 March 2018 and concluded on 30 May 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". Nevertheless, on 3 August 2020, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated this ruling. On 5 April 2021, a separate U.S. District Court ruling reaffirmed a 2018 jury verdict which found both Sánchez de Lozada and Carlos Sanchez Berzaín liable and required them to pay $10 million.