Sacha Llorenti

Who is Sacha Llorenti?

Sacha Sergio Llorenti Soliz, or Sacha Llorenti, is a former Bolivian government official and past president of Bolivia's Permanent Assembly for Human Rights. He was appointed as Vice Minister of Coordination with Social Movements in January 2010, and elevated to Minister of Government in January 2007. Llorenti resigned from that post on 27 September 2011 in the wake of the Morales government's violent raid on the peaceful indigenous march in defense of the Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory. Llorenti neither took responsibility for the raid nor condemned it, but resigned so as to not "be converted into a instrument of the right wing and the opposition seeking to attack the process [of change] and damage the image of the President." But, Police Commanders and Human Rights President -Rolando Villena- have accused Llorenti of ordering the use of brutal force against the indigenous march. Almost a year after resigning as Bolivia’s Defense Minister, Cecilia Chacón has broken her silence to question President Evo Morales’ recent appointment of ex-Interior Minister Sacha Llorenti as ambassador to the UN—an act which, she says, signifies impunity for those responsible for the police repression of lowland indigenous marchers last September 25 at Chaparina.