Bolivia detains attorney general, government ministry says
Police say 13 others were detained as officers seized about $300,000 from an ambulance and raided prosecutor offices nationwide.
- On Thursday, Bolivian police arrested Bolivian Attorney General Roger Mariaca and 13 others accused of protecting drug traffickers, days after the Trump administration imposed visa restrictions on the attorney general over corruption allegations.
- President Rodrigo Paz took office last November, ending nearly two decades of Movement Toward Socialism party dominance under former President Evo Morales, and has since deepened security cooperation with Washington.
- Interior Minister Marco Antonio Oviedo alleged authorities found 3.53 million bolivianos and $10,000 in an ambulance leaving Mariaca's Santa Cruz home, claiming the attorney general had protected Uruguayan drug kingpin Sebasti Marset in 2023.
- Secretary State Marco Rubio hailed the arrests as "bold and decisive actions" to combat corruption, citing The State Department's Shield of the Americas alliance supporting conservative governments fighting organized crime.
- Two other prosecutors targeted by this week's broader U.S. visa sanctions were also detained, as Washington continues using travel bans to pressure officials across South America whose actions conflict with its priorities.
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Bolivia jails prosecutor investigating Trump operative Cerimedo on Washington’s orders
Bolivia arrested its attorney general two days after US sanctions, removing the prosecutor whose case against Fernando Cerimedo threatened to expose the criminal connections behind Trump’s “Shield of the Americas.”
Without a court order, but with the permission of the US Secretary of State, the Bolivian government has arrested the person behind the inquiries against the far-right strategist, linked to the Argentine Javier Milei, to the Bolivian president himself and to the surroundings of Donald Trump and MAGA.The Cerimedo case, the adviser to the ultra-right Latin American woman accused of trying to kill her former partner, splashes Milei Fernando Cerimed…
Bolivia: Prosecutor’s Office Condemns ‘Kidnapping’ of Attorney General Investigating Cerimedo (+Evo Morales)
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—Bolivia’s Prosecutor’s Office condemned the “kidnapping” of Attorney General Roger Mariaca and Santa Cruz departmental prosecutor Alberto Zeballos following their arrest at Viru Viru International Airport on Wednesday night, September 30. The operation came as prosecutors investigated Fernando Cerimedo, the far-right Argentinian political operative and former adviser to Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz. Officials from …
The government of Rodrigo Paz announced the dismantling of a "criminal organization" that had infiltrated the judicial system - Washington had canceled the visa of Roger Mariaca due to his alleged ties to organized crime The post Attorney General Arrested in Bolivia - Accused of "Protecting" Drug Traffickers appeared first on in.gr.
The joint statement, issued by the U.S. State Department, also urges the Bolivian government to keep investigations open and bring to justice members of structures linked to drug trafficking.
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