Waldo Albarracín

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Waldo Albarracín Sánchez (* 1957 in La Paz ) is a Bolivian civil rights , which was known worldwide when he in 1998 the Human Rights Award from Amnesty International was awarded the biennial is awarded by the German section of Amnesty International.

At that time, the lawyer and lecturer Waldo Albarracín was chairman of the “Human Rights Association of Bolivia” ( APDHB ), an organization that had campaigned for the protection of civil and human rights in Bolivia for more than twenty years .

In January 1997 Waldo Albarracín was kidnapped by police officers who took him to an unknown location, tortured him, beat him and finally left him with serious injuries on the premises of the PTJ Judicial Police in La Paz.

According to Amnesty International, when two of the police officers involved were to be charged in 1999, the lecturer's family received death threats over the phone at the same time, and these were repeated in subsequent years.

Waldo Albarracín was President of the APDHB from 1992 to 2003, and from 2003 to 2008 he was an ombudsman (Defensor del Pueblo de Bolivia) in his home country .

He was a member of international Latin American legal associations and held some leading positions. Albarracín taught as a university lecturer at numerous Bolivian universities. He has been Rector of the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés since 2013 and was re-elected for a second term in 2016.

After irregularities in the counting of votes for the 2019 presidential election, a protest movement made up of various parties and representatives of civil society formed in Bolivia. Albarracín led the group Comité Nacional de Defensa de la Democracia de Bolivia (Committee for the Defense of Democracy), which called for the creation of a new supreme electoral court to organize impartial elections. On October 21, 2019, Albarracín was injured by tear gas and a blow to the head during protests. On the night of November 11, 2019, in the wake of riots by supporters of the resigned President Evo Morales, Waldo Albarracín's house was looted and then set on fire.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historia Defensoria del Pueblo. In: defensoria.gob.bo . 2019, Retrieved November 3, 2019 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ Thomas Schmid: "Bring fire extinguishers, please!" In: amnesty.de . January 1, 2020, accessed January 24, 2020.
  3. ↑ UMSA - Rectorado. In: umsa.bo . Retrieved November 3, 2019 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ Miriam Chávez: Albarracín es reelecto en la UMSA para la gestión 2016-2019. In: la-razon.com . November 17, 2016, accessed November 3, 2019 (Spanish).
  5. ^ Resistance against Morales is forming in Bolivia. In: orf.at . October 27, 2019, accessed November 11, 2019.
  6. ↑ Waldo Albarracín se recupera tras agresión en La Paz. In: lostiempos.com . October 22, 2019, accessed November 3, 2019 (Spanish).
  7. ↑ Saquean y queman la casa de Waldo Albarracín. In: redbolivision.tv.bo. November 10, 2019, accessed November 11, 2019 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Albarracín, Waldo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albarracín Sánchez, Waldo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bolivian civil rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH La Paz