
Lupe Vera was a Bolivian investigative journalist who lived in San Mateo Province during the 2010s. In 2019, she was imprisoned by the Santa Blanca Cartel while investigating the hundreds of disappearances engineered by cartel enforcer El Pozolero, but she was rescued by American special forces and was eventually able to publish the identities of several cartel victims with the help of a captured El Pozolero's testimonies.