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LatinNews Daily - 29 April 2026
In brief: Former central bank president arrested in Bolivia
*A former president of Bolivia’s central bank (BCB), Edwin Rojas (2020-2025), has been arrested on charges of dereliction of duty and anti-economic conduct, alongside other former BCB executives. Prosecutor Miguel Cardozo told journalists that the BCB suffered US$124m in economic damages relating to “irregular transactions” concerning bonds. “They sold and bought bonds in greater amounts than those which had been established,” Cardozo said. The others who are being charged are the BCB’s former interim director Óscar Ferrufino, former interim director Diego Pérez Cueto, former head of operations Pascual Oswaldo Nina, former senior economic policy adviser Rolando Sergio Colque, and former financial analysts Rolando Jorge Olmos and Renan Marcelo Franco.
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