Combating drug trafficking/Bolivia

Former Bolivian Anti-Drug Czar Jailed in Narco-Trafficking Probe

A Bolivian judge ordered a preventative jail term for former anti-drug police chief Óscar Nina, along with his son Hugo and another top police official, on Wednesday, March 4, after Nina testified in court for 11 hours, reported anti-corruption prosecutor Ana Luisa Heredia.

... Interior Minister Hugo Moldiz said there were “serious suspicions” of Nina’s links with drug traffickers. “We believe that this has been a good first step and now the task of the judiciary is to accelerate the resolution of this case to set a precedent,” Moldiz said on Wednesday after a cabinet meeting.