Organizations international policies and Latin American leaders have condemning the military uprising denounced by the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, after some armed troops of the Army They will begin to deploy around the government headquarters in La Paz.
The military movement began after warnings made by the former commander general of the Army, Juan José Zuñigaafter being dismissed the night before the uprising.
Luis Almagro, general secretary of the Organization of American States (OAS), through its X account, noted that they condemn “the events in Bolivia in the most forceful way. The Army must submit to the legitimately elected civil power. We send our solidarity to President Luis Arce Catacora, his government and the entire Bolivian people. The international community, the OAS and the General Secretariat will not tolerate any breach of the legitimate constitutional order in Bolivia or anywhere else.”
Message that was replicated by the Representatives of Latin American leftist leaders meeting in the Puebla Group, to which former president Evo Morales belongs. The organization accuses that the military They try to prevent Morales’ candidacy for the presidency.
Through a statement, they expressed that “Bolivia recovered in November 2020 its democracy after having suffered a civic-military coup a year earlier that established a de facto government. Now, fully governing the institutions of the rule of law, It is inadmissible that whoever leads the Bolivian army threatens to take up arms to prevent a citizen from running to preside over the country (Evo Morales).”
“We ask President Luis Arce, whose attachment to democratic institutions we know, that enforces the sacred principle of the non-deliberative nature in the politics of the Public Force“, they said.
Same ideas defended by President Gabriel Boric, who also condemned the uprising and stressed his “concern about the situation in Bolivia. “We express our support for democracy in our brother country and for the legitimate government.”
“We strongly condemn the unacceptable action of force by a sector of that country’s army. “We cannot tolerate any breach of the legitimate constitutional order in Bolivia or anywhere else,” he posted on his X account.
For his part, the former president of Argentina stated that “The undemocratic uprising of some units of the Bolivian Army, They deserve only the strongest repudiation. My unconditional support to President Luis Arce and I call for the firm defense of democracy. Let us not allow the will of the people to be overwhelmed. “Force Bolivia.”
In Spain, the former minister and Podemos MEP, Irene Montero, indicated all her “support for the brother people of Bolivia and its legitimate government. In the face of coup plotters, democracy must be respected”.
