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Victor Hugo Daza
Victor Hugo Daza was a 17-year old Bolivian citizen killed by the military during the protests of early 2000 in the city of Cochabamba. People in Cochabamba protested against the privatization of local water supplies by the Bechtel Corporation that forced the poor to pay as much as 25% of their incomes for water.
A military tribunal acquitted the sharpshooter believed to be responsible for Daza's death. He was caught on film dressed in civilian clothes shooting a group of unarmed civilians.
When the water system in Cochabamba was privatized and taken over by Bechtel Corporation of San Francisco, California, ...
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