Andean Group - May 2022

It has been a turbulent few months for Bolivia’s counter-narcotics agency (FELCN). An arrest warrant for the FELCN’s director, José María Velasco, was issued on 7 April, after Velasco was accused of protecting drug traffickers in Cochabamba department. This followed a US extradition request in February for Maximiliano Dávila, who headed the FELCN during the final months of the Evo Morales administration (2006-2019), and the sentencing of former FELCN director René Sanabria (2008-2009) to 10 years in prison on 6 April. We begin this May 2022 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Andean Group by looking at the persistence of corruption at the FELCN.

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