Prison warden fired after inmates throw social gathering for ex-drug czar

The warden of Bolivia’s major jail has been fired and positioned underneath investigation after inmates threw a loud birthday bash for the nation’s jailed former anti-drug chief.
State lawyer Pablo Guzman stated that Colonel Johnny Rojas was dismissed and is suspected of granting one other prisoner’s request to carry the social gathering behind bars for the ex-drug czar, General Oscar Nina.
Neighbours complained about loud music from the October get together, which reportedly included a present with singers in the primary patio at Palmasola penitentiary. Bolivia’s largest jail homes greater than A,000 inmates outdoors Santa Cruz, about 335 miles (540km) east of the capital of La Paz.
Nina’s lawyer says his shopper didn’t promote the celebration.
Bolivia’s former prime drug cop was arrested and jailed in March alongside together with his son, additionally a police official, on suspicion of illicit enrichment and ties to narcotics trafficking, studies The Associated Press.
Authorities consider father and son helped Jesús Guzmán, the son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, enter Bolivia in 2011 beneath a pretend id so he might discover ways to pilot small planes close to Santa Cruz. The metropolis is taken into account to be the bottom of operations for transporting Bolivian and Peruvian cocaine by air and land to Brazil and Argentina.
Government Minister Carlos Romero stated events of a “leisure and cultural” nature are permitted on the jail, “however they don’t often happen at eleven at night time”