A fugitive general charged with collusion over last week’s alleged coup attempt in Bolivia has told The Associated Press that before being pulled out of retirement to storm the presidential palace, he had the impression that the embattled government intended to share power with the Bolivian army.
Men talk in front of a newspaper kiosk in La Paz , Bolivia , Thursday, June 27, 2024, a day after Army troops stormed the government palace in what President Luis Arce called a coup attempt. An armored vehicle and military police form outside the government palace at Plaza Murillo in La Paz , Bolivia , Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Armored vehicles rammed into the doors of Bolivia ’s government palace Wednesday as President Luis Arce said the country faced an attempted coup. Army Cmdr. Gen.
“This is so strange, so unbelievable,” said Marcia Tiñini, a 58-year-old teacher in La Paz. “First I believed the government and felt solidarity, but now I don’t know what to say.” “It was a kind of theater,” said retired Gen. Brig. Omar Cordero Balderrama. “It’s the first time I’ve ever seen a military coup being broadcast live on television. With coups, everyone knows the first thing to be taken over is the media.
It was also odd that the rebellion was led by Zúñiga, a loyalist who owes his position and high rank to President Arce. “It was up to Arce to make reforms that would counter the impunity, but the president did the opposite,” said Juan Ramón Quintana, minister of the presidency under Morales. “He has deeply damaged military procedures and aggravated an institutional crisis.”At a press conference late Wednesday, Government Minister Eduardo del Castillo presented further details about what he described as Zúñiga’s veritable, albeit shambolic, attempt to overthrow the government.
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