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Goni was also forced to flee the presidential palace to live in exile in the U.S., but, as in de la Rúa’s case, not before many lives were lost. After Goni ordered the military to put down street demonstrations, soldiers killed close to seventy people—many of them bystanders—and injured four hundred others. As of early 2007, Goni was wanted by Bolivia’s Supreme Court on charges relating to the massacre.98
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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