A military coup attempt developed in the city of La Paz, Bolivia against the government of President Luis Arce. Military units had been surrounding the Palacio Quemado in the Murillo Square, led by General Juan José Zúñiga, former leader of the Bolivian armed forces. teleSUR
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00:00the attempt of COP26 in Bolivia and the ongoing COP attempt and we show our deep solidarity.
00:10We reject and we censure strongly the anti-constitutional performance,
00:18anti-democratic of the armed forces of Bolivia. At this moment, we are trying
00:26to take by assault the democracy and our constitutional government.
00:31Before this fragrant fact, an attempt of coup, the Central Union of Bolivia,
00:39we urge these groups that today pretend to commit this crime, to stop this action,
00:49which is a terrorist and seditious act against the democracy in the nation. At the same time,
00:56let them hear the voice of the people in a responsible way and as history demands from us,
01:05we demand and we summon all the social organizations and trade unions in the country,
01:11to all the workers of Bolivia, to all the general people, to raise the rise against
01:18this group of coup attempters and violations of democratic rights. At the same time,
01:26we summon all the international community to demonstrate against this violation of
01:34international treaties and pronounce in defense of our government, the government that has been
01:42legally elected as the only organization in the country before this
01:51action in Bolivia. We declare a general strike as of today,
02:03the transfer of all the social organization to the La Paz to defend and to destitute
02:11the revolution. To stop the forces that are trying to attempt a coup,
02:20the revolutionary long live the national democracy, long live our constitutional government,
02:28long live the unity of the Bolivian people, long live democracy,
02:33long live the unity in the national.
02:46Thank you very much people from the press, we're here in a meeting
02:57and to us, you know, people have, this is an emergency meeting to analyze what is happening now
03:03in the government's headquarters, what is going on in the Plaza Murillo and before these
03:08facts, the Bolivian Central Trade Union made a statement and rejects these unconstitutional acts.
03:22The workers union demands the respect to the constitution of the nation,
03:28the respect of the people's decision to have, which have elected the constitutional president
03:35in the polls and in the case you don't pay attention to this statement of a social organization,
03:45we are going to take the actions ourselves. These actions that we summon all our organizations,
03:53base, confederations, workers union, regional worker unions to move urgently and now to the
04:04headquarters of the government to recuperate the Plaza Murillo, to recuperate the constitutional
04:11order, to recover our democracy. That's why we're meeting here, we call to all the sectors
04:20affiliated or not affiliated to summon, to add to us, to join us, to avoid a coup attempt in this
04:28country and we call to the reflection of all the armed forces to respect the constitutional
04:36policy of the state, to respect the people.
04:41People have elected the people, the government, the people is in the government and we have to
04:46respect the democratic vote. We call to reflection because the workers and the
04:53organization, social organization are not going to allow this attempt, coup attempt.
05:01If we have to be on the street, we're going to be on the streets and we summon and we call.
05:05That's why we declare from this moment on a general strike without any definite date,
05:15long live the central Bolivian, long live the unity of the people in Bolivia,
05:22down the golpist, the pushist, long live democracy.