I was arrested Bolivian authorities General Juan José Zuniga, commander The failed coup On Bolivian President Luis Arce, and he appeared in a video recording published by the media while he was handcuffed, after his arrest, and during a press conference by Government Minister Eduardo del Castillo.
General Zuniga held the position of Bolivian Army Commander Before he was dismissed and arrested during the past hours after carrying out a failed coup attempt, according to the Spanish channel RTV.
The channel indicated that Bolivian Defense Minister Edmundo Novio confirmed that the government had taken full control of the armed forces following… Coup attempt Bolivian President Luis Arce was assassinated by former army chief Juan Jose Zuniga, and all those responsible for carrying out the coup attempt will be brought to justice.”
Latin American presidents quickly rejected the attempt Coup in Bolivia Its president, Luis Arce, also denounced it before the deployment of troops and tanks in front of the government headquarters in Bolivia, according to the Spanish newspaper 20 Minutos.
Televised images of the tank that attempted to bring down the metal door of the presidential palace, which was later entered by former general Juan Jose Zuniga, spread like wildfire on social media networks. Bolivian Army Commander At that time, and immediately afterwards, several governments in the region expressed their disavowal and demanded the restoration of constitutional order in the Andean country.
Buenos Aires reaffirmed its “unlimited defense of democracy in the region” and “strongly condemns any attempt to break it,” referring to “coup attemptWhich took place in Bolivia.
“Coups have never succeeded in Latin America,” Brazilian President Lula da Silva said on his Twitter account, adding, “Brazil’s position is clear. I am a lover of democracy, and I want it to prevail throughout Latin America.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro expressed, via the same social network, his “total rejection of the coup” in Bolivia.
Chilean President Gabriel Boric stressed that he could not “tolerate any violation of the legitimate constitutional order in Bolivia Or anywhere else.”
“Ecuador wishes for the validity of democracy, the rule of law and respect for the existing constitutional order,” Daniel Noboa’s government wrote on its X account.
Likewise, Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo noted that “force is not the way” to “building free and democratic states.”
Honduran President Xiomara Castro, the country’s “interim” president, said: “I urgently call on the heads of state of the member states of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States to condemn the fascism that is today attacking democracy in Bolivia and to demand full respect for civil power and the Constitution.”
The president-elect and first female president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, described the attempt as an “attack on democracy” on the 10th, and Sheinbaum added: “Our unconditional support for President Luis Arce and his people.”
Likewise, outgoing Governor Andrés Manuel López Obrador on the same platform sent his “full support and backing” to Arce, whom he described as “the authentic democratic authority of that brotherly people and country.”
In turn, the Nicaraguan government, through its Vice President Rosario Murillo, confirmed that the reported events “incur the wrath of all of us.”
The government of Dina Bolwarti also strongly condemned the attempt to rupture the constitution Boliviawhile supporting Arsi and “institutional efforts to maintain order and the rule of law.”