Security & Strategic Review June 2010 (ISSN 1741-4202)

BOLIVIA | Fending off drugs charges. Deputy social defence minister Felipe Cáceres, who is in charge of Bolivia's antidrugs efforts, denied on 9 June that the Brazilian drug-trafficking gang known as the Comando Vermelho (CV) had established itself in Bolivia. He was responding to claims in the Uruguayan media - prompted by the arrest in their country of a suspected Brazilian trafficker - that the CV was seeking to establish a Uruguayan outlet for the cocaine it was already transporting from Bolivia to Brazil. Cáceres did say, however, that the CV might have established connections with local gangs of traffickers.

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