In Bolivia 1,714 victims of the dictatorship will be compensated

First modification: 08/23/2022 – 12:38

In total, 1,714 people will be compensated as victims of the military dictatorships in Bolivia.

The country, like all its neighbors, experienced Plan Condor from the 1950s, an operation of political repression in the heart of Latin America backed by the United States to prevent the left from taking power.

Opponents were killed, tortured or disappeared overnight. The victims and their families have been fighting for ten years to receive the compensation that corresponds to them since a 2004 law.

There are still more than 4,500 cases to be examined

But there is still a long way to go to end the crimes of the dictatorships, as Victoria López explains, who was tortured when she was pregnant and lost her son.

“Do not erase us from history. We 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 us not forget our colleagues whose cases are still pending, those who are victims , but whose cases have not yet been dealt with,” López told RFI.

More than 4,500 of them continue to ask for their cases to be reviewed in order to receive the same compensation. Some 14 million dollars must be distributed among the victims. On Sunday, the Head of State paid tribute to these human rights defenders and promised not to forget them.