The former vice president of Bolivia between 2006 and 2019, Alvaro García Linerahas repudiated the attempted coup d’état against the Government of Luis Arce and has assured that the de facto powers They are always latent and “pop their heads out” when the progressive projects appear weakIn an interview with Víctor Hugo Morales on 750, García Linera called for reflection on the role of the “powers that be” that threaten governments in the region.
“Across the world, in all democracies, there are de facto powers that escape the vote. The business oligarchiesthe armed forces and, in the case of America, the American Embassy“García Linera said just hours after the attempted coup in Bolivia, where the detained general Juan José Zúñiga tried to enter the Palacio del Quemado with tanks, which triggered alerts from the Bolivian government and presidents from all over the region, with the exception of the Argentine one, Javier Milei.
The former vice president maintained that “those de facto powers are always there, outside of democracy”. And they act “when they see weakness in governments.” “Yesterday it was the turn of a faction, a very conservative piece, within the Armed Forces to act,” he said, thereby ruling out the version of a possible “self-coup,” as suggested by a sector of the Movement for Socialism itself ( MAS), the party of Arce and Evo Morales. This Thursday, deputy Anyelo Céspedes Miranda told 750 that “everything has been planned” by Arce.
García Linera, far from subscribing to the idea that there was a self-coup d’état, said that it is about “always latent dangers, that never disappear, but they become more immediate when progressive governments are in difficulty, are weak. And they are more silenced when governments are strong.”
In fact, he argued that the statements of the former general himself Zuniga -who led the insurrection and then was arrested He assured that it was a plan orchestrated by Arce– “they must be taken as an inventory, because a man is already detained and has nothing to lose.”.
“These are the internal fractures that show us weakness. And internal fights make us forget greater enemies. Who, like yesterday, stick their heads out, their ears stick out“he said forcefully in the midst of a tumultuous government of Luis Arcemediated by a big fight with Evo Morales.
For this reason, he clarified that “progressive forces always have contradictions. But when they become fundamental, we stop seeing the true adversary who is hiding.”. Finally, he related: “In Bolivia it has been acting since the beginning of the year with the bank run. There are businessmen who do not hand over their export dollars and prefer to leave them in their North American accounts. And now this attempted coup d’état.”
