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José Olivares in New York

Bolivia’s former top anti-drug official to be extradited to US for drug trafficking

A middle-aged man in handcuffs is flanked by black-clad police with helmets and balaclavas and military-grade firearms.
Police escort Maximiliano Dávila Pérez at a Bolivian police command office in La Paz, Bolivia, in 2022. Photograph: Juan Karita/AP

Bolivia’s highest court on Wednesday approved the extradition of the country’s former top anti-narcotics official to the US to face charges of trafficking narcotics.

Maximiliano Dávila Pérez briefly served as Bolivia’s top counter-narcotics official in 2019, before then president Evo Morales resigned. He later served as a police commander in Bolivia under the government of the current president, Luis Arce.

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