Never-graduating student leader arrested in Bolivia for embezzlement

[Judi Lynn]

Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 10:01 UTC



Mendoza was reportedly earning almost as much as a university rector or as President Luis Arce


A 52-year-old Bolivian student leader who has spent the last 33 years of his life unsuccessfully pursuing a law degree has been arrested over fudgy dealings as president of the Bolivian University Confederation (CUB).

According to La Paz Prosecutor William Alave, Max Mendoza, aged 52, “would have benefited in an irregular manner” from a monthly salary of BOB 21,870 (about US$ 3,150) from the university students' union. This salary is similar to that of a university rector and even to that of the president of Bolivia, who earns around US$3,500 per month.

“The ex-university leader Max Mendoza, by determination of the Public Ministry, was arrested,” Government [Interior] Minister Eduardo del Castillo announced Saturday.

According to reports, Mendoza has been studying several courses since 1989, has failed 200 subjects, and obtained zero gradings in more than 100 exams. He had denied the accusations last week saying they were “slander.”

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https://en.mercopress.com/2022/05/23/never-graduating-student-leader-arrested-in-bolivia-for-embezzlement

[Turbineguy]

1. I liked that last year of college best.

I could have done that year about 29 times.

[keithbvadu2]

2. Pursuing a law degree for 33 years

Pursuing a law degree for 33 years

Doubtful that he knows what slander means.

[packman]

3. Best 4 yrs. - Still would like to be there

Of course with the same body, same liver, same brain (and it wasn't much at that time).