Weekly Report - 06 December 2012 (WR-12-48)

The Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) government of President Evo Morales is facing one of its worst corruption scandals since the drug-smuggling case implicating the former head of the counter-narcotics force (Felcn), René Sanabria, in March 2011 [WR-11-12]. As well as threatening a new source of tension in US-Bolivia relations (the case involves a US businessman Jacob Ostreicher), it is providing the first real test for Bolivia’s new attorney general, Ramiro Guerrero, whose initial moves as part of his declared crackdown on corruption have done little to inspire confidence among the political opposition.

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