Former Bolivian President Luis Arce was ordered into five months of preventive detention in La Paz on charges of mismanagement of funds from the Indigenous Development Fund.Judge Mario Helmer Laura issued the order after a virtual hearing, despite Arce's lawyer citing the former president's age and lymphatic cancer.Arce denies the accusations as politically motivated by
Rodrigo Paz's government and linked to his recent expulsion from
Evo Morales' party amid
Bolivia's severe economic crisis.