Cuban president repudiates coup attempt in Bolivia (+ post) – Escambray

The attack on democracy and the Bolivian people shown in the images of international media is outrageous, said Miguel Díaz-Canel

The president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, repudiated this Wednesday the ongoing coup attempt in Bolivia and extended all the solidarity of the Cuban Government and people to the sister South American nation.

In his X account, the president denounced signs of possible military action against the Constitution of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, which would have serious consequences.

In his message he rejected attempts to subvert the popular will and expressed his support for Bolivian President Luis Arce.

“The attack on democracy and the Bolivian people shown in the images of international media this afternoon in Bolivia is outrageous,” stated the President of Cuba.

For his part, the Foreign Minister of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez, denounced that the irregular mobilizations of some units of the Bolivian Army are very worrying and stressed that Latin America and the Caribbean is a zone of peace.

President of Bolivia calls to counter coup d’état

The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, called this Wednesday from the Casa Grande del Pueblo (government headquarters) to resist against the attempted coup d’état led by General Juan José Zúñiga, head of the Army.

Serene and surrounded by his entire cabinet, the president called for unity to prevent the coup attempt from becoming a reality, in a message broadcast by the state channel Bolivia TV.

“We call on everyone to defend democracy, and here we are firm from the Big House,” he said.

Minutes after this message, Zúñiga proclaimed to the press that the Army will free Jeanine Áñez, Luis Fernando Camacho and other 2019 coup plotters, whom he described as “political prisoners.”

Similarly, using a profane word in reference to the testicles, he said that the Army has them to restore what he called democracy, to the detriment of the constitutional order that has existed in the Andean Amazonian country for 42 years.

This intervention has a recent precedent, accusations against coup plans by the United States embassy in Bolivia and by the head of the Southern Command, Laura Richardson, who repeatedly referred to lithium, water and the Amazon using the term “we have.”