Lawyers for the ex-president claimed that the charges are political propaganda:
The ex-president's lawyers say the extradition attempt is no more than political harassment by leftist President Evo Morales.The exiled “Goni” lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland though that hasn’t stopped lawyers for victims in Bolivia to file civil suits against him in U.S. courts.
"The actions taken by the Sanchez de Lozada government were constitutional, lawful, and appropriate," Howard Gutman, a lawyer representing the former president, said in a statement released Tuesday.
The extradition "is part of a politically motivated offensive orchestrated by Evo Morales against democracy and those he considers his political foes," he said.
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Sources- The Latin Americanist, PRESS TV, coha.org, CNN
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