[News] Bolivian Government Denounces Attempted Coup D’éTat

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Bolivian Government Denounces Attempted Coup D’éTat
June 26, 2024
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Military Tanks in the Murillo square, June 26,2024 Photo: @ReporterosMX_
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June 26, 2024 Hour: 3:49 pm

*The head of state calls for respect for democracy.*

The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce Catacora, denounced this Wednesday
irregular mobilizations of Bolivian military units.


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Local media in the area have reported the movement of at least 8 military
tankettes, full of armed soldiers, in the areas of Plaza Murillo where the
Government Palace and the Plurinational Legislative Assembly are located.

Through the social network X, the head of state said: We denounce irregular
mobilizations of some units of the Bolivian Army. Democracy must be
respected».

Likewise, in a message to the Bolivian people accompanied by his cabinet of
ministers, he said:

“We need the Bolivian people to organize and mobilize against the coup and
in favor of democracy. We cannot allow Bolivian lives to be taken away once
again by coup attempts. We want to urge everyone to defend democracy and
here we stand firm in Casa Grande with the whole cabinet, with our social
organizations. We greet the social organizations and cordially invite them
to show the way of democracy to the Bolivian people”.

Also the vice president of Bolivia, David Choquehuanca, also denounced this
fact «against our democratically elected government».

*The text reads, We denounce irregular mobilizations of some units of the
Bolivian Army. Democracy must be respected.*

The irregular military are masked, provocative and violent. The soldiers
are part of the Bolivian armed forces and are led by General Juan José
Zúñiga, leader of the Bolivian armed forces.

The Minister of Government, Eduardo del Castillo, went there and tried to
communicate with members of one of the military vehicles, inside which was
the general Zúñiga.

Del Castillo tried to find out who gave the order to move the military
contingent and asked Zúñiga for explanations.

Zúñiga entered the Government Palace and said that all forces are
mobilized», demanding a total change of cabinet. He then returned to the
inside of the tank parked in Plaza Murillo.

*The text reads, We denounce to the International community that in Bolivia
there is a Coup d’état against our democratically elected Government.*

Later, the Minister of Public Works, Edgar Montaño, said that «what we
Bolivians are going to do is defend all of Bolivia and its inhabitants»,
recalling that democracy had already been restored.

According to teleSUR correspondent Freddy Morales, the number of soldiers
in Plaza Murillo is high. They shut down revenue to this area and prevent
journalists from working.

The former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, also joined the messages
denouncing the coup. Evo says “the Coup d’état is brewing. At this time,
personnel from the Armed Forces and tanks are deployed in Plaza Murillo”.

“Call on the social movements of the countryside and the city to defend
democracy”, the former president says.

For her part, the Minister of the Presidency, María Nela Prada, denounced
«to the Bolivian people and the international community an attempted coup
d’état here in the Plurinational State of Bolivia», and reported that «have
taken the four corners, inside the square Murillo and in the front of the
Government Palace».

The minister indicates that outside the Plurinational Legislative Assembly
there are troops taking the whole street that do not allow entry to that
institution.

“We must avoid this”, as well as the repetition of a coup d’état in the
country that could end in other tragedies.

For his part, teleSUR correspondent in Bolivia, Freddy Morales, indicated
that General Juan José Zúñiga had returned to the tankette without offering
statements, and recalled that the Army faction known as the Colorado
Movement of Bolivia is the one that guards President Luis Arce and the
former Government Palace, known as the Burnt Palace.

«This regiment depends on General Zúñiga and the Army. It is a detail that
must be taken into account, in a context where the minister of the
presidency has warned that it is an attempted coup», he said.

According to Morales, the tankette carrying General Zúñiga began to move.
“You can see that it has a bullet mat, which a soldier drives from the
turret of this tankette,” he said.

He also detailed that one of the tankettes has advanced towards the
Legislative Palace, down the street leading to Miraflores. «It has advanced
about twenty meters, to push people who are concentrated in the corner
shouting against what is seen as an attempted coup», he described.

Morales also claims that the police use tear gas against people who protest
in rejection of the coup attempt.

Then, the correspondent of teleSUR reported that Zúñiga came out of the
tankette to announce the release of the former de facto president, Jeanine
Áñez; «has pointed out the name several times of the former governor of
Santa Cruz, the lord (Fernando) Camacho, who is imprisoned for the 2019
coup d’état process (…) He has said that there will not be a single
political prisoner left in Bolivia and that his comrades who have house
detention or preventive detention, within the framework of the 2019 coup
process, will also be released».

Bolivia was the scene of a coup in November 2019. It was organized by the
U.S. and the local right with the complicity of the Organization of
American States (OAS).

*Developing story…*

Autor: CC

Fuente: teleSURtv

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