Bolivia: military-led coup attempt fails

President Arce confronted Zúñiga at the door of the Casa Grande del Pueblo, and ordered him to “withdraw” the soldiers who accompanied him.

Yesterday Wednesday, in La Paz, Boliviathere were moments of tension when the military, led by the dismissed army chief Juan Jose Zunigathey positioned themselves with tankettes in front of the presidential headquarters and attempted to force their way into the building. This act was described as a coup attack for him president Luis Arce.

After several hours of mobilization, the troops withdrew from the Murillo Squarethe nerve center of the city, after the swearing-in of new military commanders by the president.

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President Arce swore in the new military leaders: General Jose Sanchez Velasquez As commander of the Army, General Gerardo Zabala Alvarez as commander of the Air Force, and General Renan Guardia Ramirez as commander of the Navy.

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This act was carried out after the president denounced an attempted coup d’état by Zúñiga, who had expressed the intention of ““restructure democracy” in the country.

In addition, Arce criticized Zúñiga’s intentions, indicating that “The Armed Forces intend to restructure democracy, to make it a true democracy. Not of a few, not of a few owners who have been running the country for 30, 40 years.”.