US bars Bolivia’s attorney general Mariaca from entry
The US State Department has restricted entry for Bolivia’s Attorney General Roger Mariaca and his immediate family. Washington alleges that he accepted bribes linked to drug trafficking and violent criminals; the accusation is a government claim, not a court finding. The public designation comes amid wider visa measures against Bolivian officials. Existing visa revocations and future ineligibility are separate measures, so the wider announcement does not mean every person named lost a current visa.
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Mariaca and his family face an entry restriction
The US State Department announced on 28 September that Bolivia’s Attorney General Roger Mariaca and his immediate family would be barred from entering the United States. Visión 360 reported the public designation, and Red Uno separately identified Mariaca in its account of the same US visa measures. The action concerns permission to enter the United States. It is an administrative restriction, not a criminal conviction, and the two Bolivian publishers report the same decision rather than separate actions against Mariaca.[1], [2]
Washington’s allegations remain allegations
Washington alleges that Mariaca sought and accepted bribes while in public office to facilitate drug trafficking and help violent criminals evade justice. Visión 360 reports those accusations as the US government’s stated basis for the entry measure. The State Department says the alleged conduct harmed anti-narcotics efforts and Bolivian democratic institutions. These are US assertions about Mariaca, not findings independently established by the two news accounts. Mariaca’s public role makes the restriction diplomatically significant, but it does not turn the underlying accusation into a proven fact.[1]
The wider visa measures have different effects
Red Uno places the Mariaca designation within a wider announcement affecting Bolivian officials, former officials and relatives. It distinguishes 12 Bolivians whose existing visas are subject to revocation from nine others who would be ineligible if they applied for visas. Those categories describe different effects: a cancelled current visa and a future refusal are not the same step. Mariaca’s public designation is identified separately. The wider count should not be read as proof that every person named had a current visa revoked or faced Mariaca’s specific alleged conduct.[2]
