Development: On 31 August Bolivia’s rural development & land minister, Nemesia Achocollo, and Bolivia’s ambassador to Paraguay, Rosendo Alpiri, announced their resignations. Significance: The two stepped down over the corruption allegations involving the government’s indigenous development fund (Fondioc) after Lariza Fuentes- a lawyer appointed to intervene in the agency, which sits under the rural development & land ministry - announced on 25 August the results of its probe into Fondioc. Fuentes found 30 phantom projects worth B$14.51m (US$2.1m). This brought the total economic damage to the State caused by corruption at Fondioc to B$102m (US$14.8m), B$30m more than was first…
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