Weekly Report - 08 October 2026 (WR-26-40)

A week on from the 30 September arrest of Bolivia’s attorney general Roger Mariaca (2024-2026) for alleged narco-corruption, aftershocks continue to ripple through the judicial and political establishment. Police are still hunting for former interior minister Eduardo del Castillo (2020-2025), who along with Mariaca was named in a leaked police interview with suspected Uruguayan drug lord Sebastián Marset. Meanwhile, President Rodrigo Paz, who supported the installation of a new attorney general on 3 October, has faced accusations from some quarters that his administration is meddling in the justice system at the behest of the US Department of State, which first accused Mariaca of criminality [WR-26-39].