Luis Arce, the president who seems to be reeling in Bolivia due to an attempted coup d’état, removed the entire military leadership and named its new members. He did so in a live broadcast from the Casa Grande del Pueblo, headquarters of the Government of Bolivia, while, outside, explosions were heard.
“The coup plotters will not pass,” said the members of the government when Arce appointed the new leadership.
The new leadership, in its first speech, ordered all the soldiers – who participated in the coup attempt – to return to their units and disobey the claims of the dismissed general. Juan Jose Zuniga. They asked to avoid bloodshed.
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Government officials accompanied Luis Arce in this ceremony of inauguration of the three new commanders of the Armed Forces. They shouted harangues and applauded as if they were trying to compete with the sound of the explosions that could be heard outside.
The new leadership of the Arce government was made up of General Jose Wilson Sanchez Velazquez (Commander of the Army), General Gerardo Zabala Hernández (Commander of the Air Force) and Vice Admiral Renal Guardia Ramírez (Commander of the Navy).
“In my capacity as General Commander of the Army and on behalf of the force commanders, I order and order that all personnel who are mobilized in the streets must return to their units. General Zúñiga was a good commander “And we ask you not to let our soldiers’ blood be spilled, it is not right.”said General José Wilson Sánchez Velásquez, commander of the Army.
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The coup attempt was recorded on the afternoon of June 25 when Juan José Zúñiga, a general who was dismissed by Arce on Tuesday night, arrived at the Bolivian Government headquarters in the company of dozens of uniformed officers to try to take over the House. Great of the People.
Zúñiga was removed because he threatened to capture and prevent an eventual return to power of that country’s former president, Evo Morales. The fury over the dismissal was such that the soldier assured that in the next few hours he will shake up the ministry.
The Organization of American States and governments such as that of Colombia have asked that the constitutional order prevail in Bolivia and that the orders of the democratically elected power be followed.
