Americas / Bolivia · Politics

Bolivia's attorney general arrested on drug trafficking charges

Rank
Ran: 46h
Updated: 2d ago
Final
Outlets: 37
Regions: 5
Countries: 21
Languages: 7

+11

CBS News United States · English 1 Oct, 10:31 UTC

The earliest of 6 English reports

Read it also in Español (22) · +5 languages

Read at CBS News

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Diario Extra, 1 Oct, 04:49 UTC.
Second country: Peru, with El Comercio.
Second region: Europe, with ERT.
Fastest hour: +6 outlets from 1 Oct, 15:29 UTC.
Last article: 37 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 21 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

73%19%

Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 3%
Americas 27 outlets · 13 countries · 73%
Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 3%
Europe 7 outlets · 5 countries · 19%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 2%

First movers

Diario Extra 1 Oct, 04:49 UTC
El Comercio +23m
RPP +26m
Infobae +27m
ERT +40m

Last to join

elDiario.es 2 Oct, 16:10 UTC
La Hora (GT) 2 Oct, 16:05 UTC
Montevideo Portal 2 Oct, 13:06 UTC
La Jornada 2 Oct, 08:46 UTC
El Mundo 2 Oct, 00:31 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 37 outlets in 21 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 37 outlets, 2 state-owned, 1 public-service, 34 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 1: South Africa. Americas 13: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela. Asia-Pacific 1: Indonesia. Europe 5: Greece, Italy, Latvia, Spain, United Kingdom. Middle East 1: Turkey. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Greek, English, Spanish, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Portuguese.
Timeline: Earliest article Diario Extra, 1 Oct 2026, 04:49 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 04:50 UTC. Last seen 3 Oct 2026, 03:47 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Americas, Bolivia. Topic Politics. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continued by Former Bolivia prosecutor arrested for protecting drug trafficking; Bolivia's chief prosecutor accused of narco links. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

1 Oct 2026 29 25.71 31 18 31 18 4.0

2 Oct 2026 20 31.17 37 21 10 8 4.0

3 Oct 2026 133 5.89 37 21 2 2 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 1 Oct, 04:50 UTC · Updated 3 Oct, 03:47 UTC

Covered by 37 outlets

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Europe 7 outlets

Middle East 1 outlet

Anadolu Agency Turkey 1 Oct, 16:10 UTC
Bolivia detains attorney general for alleged criminal organization

Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
1 Oct 2026	29	25.71	31	18	31	18	4.0
2 Oct 2026	20	31.17	37	21	10	8	4.0
3 Oct 2026	133	5.89	37	21	2	2	4.0

Covered by 37 outlets

Africa 1 outlet

Americas 27 outlets

Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

Europe 7 outlets

Middle East 1 outlet