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On today's podcast. Bolivia Bolivia's prosecutor's office is denouncing what it described as the kidnapping of attorney general Roger Mariaca, who was detained at Santa Cruz Airport for no reason by personnel whose institutional affiliation has yet to be clarified. Mariaca was investigating Fernando Serinedo, a campaign adviser to the continental rights and former adviser to Rodrigo Paz for drug trafficking and state corruption. According to experts, the investigation could deliver checkmate to president Paz's pro US neoliberal government. The Washington government revoke prosecutor Mariaca's visa, a coercive measure that analysts and political leaders interpret as a punitive action designed to shield Serimedo and halt the judicial cases under investigation. United States They describe it as a US blackmail attempt to save and a new effort to reimpose the political control that the US embassy in Bolivia has historically exercised over the country's judicial institution. Brazil enters the final stretch of the electoral blackout today ahead of Sunday's presidential election. More than a 158,000,000 citizens are eligible to vote. Polls currently put Lula in the lead with 45% in the first round, a result that, if confirmed, would send the election to a runoff on October 25. Peru And in Peru, social movements took to the streets to protest the neoliberal policies policies of far right pro US president, Keiko Fujimori. Disapproval of her administration has been rising sharply, approaching 50% since she took office at the end of July in a questionable election.
