A tank knocked down the doors of the Bolivian Executive headquarters and entered at 3:51 p.m. this Wednesday, June 26, this after Juan José Zúñigageneral commander of the Bolivian Army, threatened to take the seat of the Government and change the cabinet.
The attack was denounced on
“This seems to indicate that they prepared the Coup d’état in advance. I ask the people with a democratic vocation to defend the Homeland from some military groups that act against democracy and the people,” he published.
What did AMLO and Sheinbaum say about the attempted Coup d’état in Bolivia?
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has shown his support for Bolivia so far in his six-year term, denounced the attack by that country’s military forces against the Government.
“We express the strongest condemnation of the attempted coup d’état in Bolivia. Our total support and endorsement to President Luis Alberto Arce, authentic democratic authority of that people and sister country”, he published in X.
Marcelo Ebrard, the next Secretary of Economy, joined the condemnation with Claudia Sheinbaum, who said: “All support and sympathy for Constitutional President Luis Arce Catacora who is facing a new coup attempt.”
Minutes later, Claudia Sheinbaum described the deployment of soldiers through the streets of La Paz as “an attack on democracy.”
“We strongly condemn these events. Our unconditional support to President Luís Arce and his people. Our support for the Government’s positioning,” said the next president of Mexico.
These are the reactions to the attempted coup d’état in Bolivia
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Luis Almagro, secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), stated that the group will not tolerate “no form of violation of the legitimate constitutional order in Bolivia”after the deployment of the military.
”The General Secretariat of the OAS strongly condemns these actions of the Bolivian Army, which must submit to civil authority as mandated by the Inter-American Democratic Charter,” Almagro stated.
Likewise, he expressed his “solidarity with the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce.”
”The international community, the OAS, the General Secretariat of the OAS, will not tolerate any form of violation of the legitimate constitutional order in Bolivia or anywhere else,” he added.
On the other hand, Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela, said he had spoken with Luis Arce, to whom he confirmed all his support against the Coup d’état.
”I received a call from President Lucho Arce of Bolivia and (also) spoke with the leader of former President Evo Morales. “We are, from Venezuela, denouncing a coup d’état against Bolivian democracy,” said the president during an event with businessmen in the state of Lara.
Another Latin American leader who condemned the military attempt was Lula da Silva, president of Brazil, who assured that “in Latin America, coups never worked.”
Lula asked his Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira to gather information before giving a formal position of the Brazilian Government in relation to the events that are occurring in Bolivia.
“(I am a) lover” of democracy and, therefore, I defend that “democracy prevails in Latin America”.
