Bolivia’s perennial student leader clung to post for decades without graduating
by AP in La Paz from World news | The Guardian on (#5ZJ65)
Max Mendoza has been arrested after a judge said his 32-year enrollment at university on a government salary may be a crime
Max Mendoza has been a remarkably persistent student - and a profitable one: he has been enrolled at a public university in Bolivia for 32 years but never graduated, much of it while being paid a government salary to serve as a student leader.
On Monday, though, he was detained and sent to jail after a judge ordered a six-month investigation into allegations his tenure as a state-paid student leader constituted a crime.
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