Bolivia's president survived an attempted coup Wednesday when military units rammed an armored vehicle into the presidential palace.
Bolivian President Luis Arce announced three new heads of the South American country's armed forces following an attempted coup in which military units used armored vehicles to ram into the doors of Bolivia's government palace. The news of the new heads of the army, navy and air force came amid the roar of supporters. 'The country is facing an attempted coup d’état. Here we are, firm in Casa Grande, to confront any coup attempt.
order all that are mobilized to return to their units,' said the newly appointed army chief José Wilson Sánchez. 'No one wants the images we’re seeing in the streets.' Soon after, troops began pulling back from the presidential palace. Arce confronted Army Gen. Juan José Zúñiga, who was recently stripped of his military command and who appeared to be leading the rebellion, in the palace hallway, as shown in a video on Bolivian television.
Bolivia, a country of 12 million people, has seen intensifying protests in recent months over the economy’s precipitous decline from one of the continent’s fastest-growing two decades ago to one of its most crisis-stricken. The country also has seen a high-profile rift at the highest levels of the governing party.
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