Eloy Pacheco Jarro arrived at the Santa Veracruz church, in the southern area of Cochabamba, Bolivia, on Saturday, May 24, 2026. A limousine, four musical groups, and three days of celebration were waiting for him. What he was not expecting was the police.
The arrest warrant was due to a family support debt accumulated over more than ten years: 6,500 dollars, equivalent to a monthly support payment of just 50 dollars that he never paid. His son, who had already died of cancer approximately ten months earlier, never received a single peso from his father during the illness. When the boy was seriously ill, he asked to see him. Pacheco did not go. The mother, desperate, even offered to reduce the debt to a third of the total in order to pay for the treatment. He rejected the offer. Relatives reported that the man had crops in the Chapare, businesses as a moneylender, and more than proven financial means.
It was the wedding invitation itself, which went viral on social media and TikTok, that made it possible to locate him after more than two years of searching. He spent two days in San Antonio prison. On Monday, May 26, he paid the debt and was released. That same afternoon he went back to continue the party.
