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Weekly Report - 17 November 2016 (WR-16-45)
BOLIVIA: Back on defensive over corruption
Bolivia’s defence minister Reymi Ferreira was compelled to deny last week that corruption was endemic in the Bolivian armed forces (FFAA). Ferreira’s remarks were in response to the attorney general’s announcement that two former top military officials had been arrested for corruption. It follows other signs that the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) government led by President Evo Morales is struggling in its efforts to address public corruption. The issue was widely considered a key factor in Morales’ unprecedented electoral defeat in the February 2016 referendum on whether to reform the 2009 constitution to allow him to run for a third consecutive presidential term (under the current constitution) in 2019 [WR-16-08].
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