Ally claims former MAS president ‘illegally kidnapped’ and suggests arrest linked to fund for Indigenous Bolivians
Bolivia’s former president Luis Arce was reportedly detained and taken to police headquarters on Wednesday.
His former presidency minister, María Nela Prada Tejada, posted a video on social media saying she had received information from “unofficial sources” that Arce had been “illegally kidnapped” by police.
The police have not commented on the alleged detention, but the vice-president, Edmand Lara, posted a video on social media congratulating a specialist police unit “for having apprehended Luis Arce, in compliance with a resolution issued by a prosecutorial authority”.
Arce served as Bolivia’s president until last November, when he handed over the sash to the centre-right former senator Rodrigo Paz Pereira, who won the runoff in an election that ended nearly 20 years of dominance by the leftist Movimiento al Socialismo (Mas).
