“We are convinced that democracy is the only way to resolve any difference and that institutions and the rule of law must be respected,” he stated through his profile on the social network X.
The indigenous leader reiterated the call for all those involved in this riot to be arrested and tried.
Evo Morales previously stated that following the coup attempt against the legitimate government of Bolivia, in addition to the change of the High Military Command, a criminal process must be immediately carried out and General Juan José Zúñiga, head of the Army, and his accomplices must be dismissed in compliance with the Political Constitution of the State and the Organic Law of the Armed Forces.
This day, Zúñiga, together with a group of soldiers, attempted to carry out a coup d’état against the government of Luis Arce.
The head of state confronted him, ordered him to demobilize the rebels and shortly after installed new military commanders in the Casa Grande del Pueblo amid the shouts of hundreds of people who gathered to support him at the government headquarters.
As the new general commander of the Army, he appointed Major General José Wilson, who in his first public intervention ordered the return of all soldiers to the barracks.
Zúñiga was arrested and the Attorney General’s Office ordered the initiation of legal actions to begin the criminal investigation against the general and all other participants in the events that occurred that day and that constitute criminal offenses, he said in a statement.
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