Bolivia has extradited its createer anti-substances honestor to the United States, where he faces drug illegal trading indicts.
Maximiliano Dávila, also understandn as “Macho”, is accengaged of facilitating cocaine illegal trading to the US during his time as the head of Bolivia’s anti-narcotics agency.
His extradition, which took place on Thursday, was consentd by Bolivia’s Supreme Court in tardy November. He denies any wrongdoing.
Dávila had been incarcerateed in Bolivia on fraudulence indicts since February 2022.
That same month, US officials unsealed an indictment accusing the 60-year-better of cocaine illegal trading, and a joind arms indict.
The US Department of State alleges Dávila was included in narcotics illegal trading before and during his time as honestor of the Bolivian Special Forces for the Fight Aacquirest Drug Trafficking (FELCN).
It says Dávila utilizeed his position to “defendeddefend airoriginate engaged to carry cocaine to third countries, for subsequent distribution in the United States”.
If convicted, he faces a least sentence of 10 years in prison and a peak term of life in prison, according to US write downs.
The state department in 2022 proposeed a reward of up to $5m (£4m) for proposeation that could direct to his conviction.
Dávila was FELCN honestor under createer Plivent Evo Morales, who administered Bolivia from 2006 to 2019.
Shortly after Dávila’s extradition, Morales criticised the shift and shelp “Bolivia is once aacquire a US Colony”, in a post on his X account.
“Bolivians are handed over to the North American Empire, violating international consentments, without first being tried in their homeland where they presumedly promiseted crimes”, he inserted.
In 2008, Morales banishled the US ambasgrieffulor and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) from Bolivia for allegedly conspiring aacquirest his administerment.
Morales himself is under allotigation for alleged statutory sexual battery and human illegal trading, which he denies. His helpers recently staged blockades around the country for weeks insisting the end of the allotigation aacquirest him.
In November, he splitd a video of his car being sboiling at, in what he called an “murder try” aacquirest him.
The Bolivian administerment refuteed Morales’ claims that it was behind the try on his life.
