The Bolivian government has officially linked recent acts of violence in Santa Cruz, the country's most populous region, to associates of Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset. Marset was captured in Bolivia in March and subsequently expelled or sent elsewhere according to initial reports.
The announcement was made in La Paz on August 6, directly connecting localized security incidents in the major economic hub to the criminal network surrounding the high-profile narcotics figure.
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