It is wrong to include Goni's name in the same league as Pinochet, the Argentinian Junta, or Fujimori.

Evo Morales had set a violent siege to the city despite being a member of congress. The measures taken by Goni to repress the marchers, who by this time started looting and burning public and private property, are no different to those currently employed by the Morales administration. Proof of that is that the death toll being suffered by the social movements is higher under Evo than under Goni.

Even the premise of the protest were nothing but a machiavellian political gambit by the opposition. The reforms enacted under the first administration were extremely succesful. Proof of that was given extensively by Evo's speech in Sucre on Aug 6th. Most of the results he took credit for were actually thanks to the capitalization. Further evidence is Evo's expansion of the Bonosol program. There extensive studies by the CAF, BID, WB, UMSA, UCB that show that Goni's other measures such as the reforma educativa, municipal decentralization, and even privatization were hugely sucessfull.

The most dammning evidence that condemns the political operatives behind the siege of La Paz is: Cochabamba's water supply is in even greater jeopardy, extreme fuel and energy shortages, lack of foreign investment.