Roberto Navia

Own Hand

Three stories intersect in a brutal lynching that occurred on June 1, 2013 in a town in the Bolivian tropics. Mario Vega, a prosecutor attached to judicial processes, tries to prevent the lynching of five young people from Villa Nogales, unjustly accused of stealing a truck. Miguel, the father, and Adrián, one of the young accused, join Mario to star in this story, which portrays what happens in many places in Bolivia, where "justice by one's own hands" claims many lives.

Tribus de la Inquisición

Six men burn like a medieval torch in the plaza of Ivirgarzama, the coca leaf producing capital and center of drug trafficking in Bolivia. Hundreds of neighbors beat them with sticks before pouring gasoline on them and setting them on fire, accusing them of having stolen a truck from the last century. Bolivia holds the macabre ranking of lynchings at the hands of civilians. It is a state where justice and citizen security are assumed on their own and by force of the herd.