Bolivia Army General Arrested Leading Coup Hours After Dismissal ~ OsazuwaAkonedo #Juan #Luis #Arce #Arnez #Bolivia #Coup #José #military #Salvador #Zúñiga https://osazuwaakonedo.news/bolivia-army-general-arrested-leading-coup-hours-after-dismissal/27/06/2024/ Two major military leaders that led a coup against the government of Bolivia butchered by large crowds of civilians on Wednesday have been arrested. #Breaking
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00:00Two major military leaders that led a coup against the government of Bolivia botched
00:03by large crowds of civilians on Wednesday have been arrested.
00:06The Bolivian military coup was thwarted as citizens outnumbered national police and military
00:10troops, forcing the security operatives to withdraw from the presidential palace and
00:14run for safety to avoid using their weapons to kill innocent civilians, as seen in the
00:17videos posted online by residents and eyewitnesses.
00:20Former army and navy commanders, Joan José Zuniga and Joan Ana Salvador, were identified
00:25as the main architects of the coup attempt and were arrested immediately.
00:28Bolivian Defense Minister Edmundo Noguero reportedly confirmed that Joan José Zuniga
00:32was dismissed on Tuesday night by President Luis Arce.
00:35At a press conference, Interior Minister Eduardo Del Castillo said the two officers would be
00:39tried for crimes related to internal security.
00:42Troops led by Bolivia's army general, Commander Joan José Zuniga had attempted a coup by
00:46seizing the presidential palace and surrounding square.
00:50Reports said a tank rammed the palace doors.
00:52However, after international condemnation and pressure, General Zuniga ordered his soldiers
00:56to retreat within hours.
00:58President Arce pressed the withdrawal as a win for Bolivia's democracy and addressed
01:01the nation following protests against the alleged coup attempt.
01:04According to Reuters, Bolivian armed forces pulled back from the presidential palace in
01:08La Paz and the general was arrested after President Luis Arce slung a coup attempt against
01:13the government and called for international support.
01:15Earlier in the day, military units led by General Joan José Zuniga, recently stripped
01:20of his military command, had gathered in the central plaza Molino Square, home to the presidential
01:24palace and congress.
01:25Today the country is facing an attempted coup d'etat.
01:28Today the country faces once again interests so that democracy in Bolivia is cut short,
01:32as said in comments from the presidential palace, with armed soldiers outside.
01:36The Bolivian people are summoned today.
01:38We need the Bolivian people to organize and mobilize against the coup d'etat in favor
01:42of democracy.
01:43A few hours later, a Reuters witness saw soldiers withdraw from the square and police take control
01:47of the plaza.
01:48Bolivian authorities arrested Zuniga and took him away, though their destination was unclear.
01:53Inside the presidential palace, as swore in José Wilson Sánchez as the military commander,
01:58Zuniga's former role.
01:59He called for camp and ordered to be restored.
02:01I order that all personnel mobilized on the streets return to their units, Sánchez said.
02:06We entreat that the blood of our soldiers not be spilled.
02:09Tensions have been building in Bolivia ahead of general elections in 2025, with latest
02:13ex-president Evo Morales planning to run against former alias, creating a major rift in the
02:18ruling Socialist Party and wider political uncertainty.
02:21Many do not want a return of Morales, who governed from 2006 to 2019 when he was ousted
02:26amid widespread protests and replaced by an interim conservative government.
02:30As than one election in 2020, according to Reuters, we have reported on Wednesday that
02:34irregular movement and mobilization of soldiers have been observed around the presidential
02:38palace in Bolivia and the state capital Central Square, igniting a fear of possible military
02:42coup in the South American country.
02:44Bolivian President Luis Aztec announced the irregular mobilization of some army units
02:49and former leader Evo Morales accused a top general of plotting a coup.
02:52A recent video showed the Bolivian president, Luis Aztec, in a direct face-to-face confrontation
02:57with the leader behind the attempted military coup in Bolivia, right at the entrance of
03:01the presidential palace.
03:03Photos and videos taken outside Bolivia's presidential palace in La Paz on Wednesday,
03:07June 26, and posted online showed military police outside the main entrance as an armoured
03:12vehicle rang into the door of the palace.
03:14Soldiers were also seen firing tear gas outside the legislative assembly as President Luis
03:18Aztec raised alarm of an irregular deployment of troops in the capital.
03:21Bolivian television also showed Aztec confronting the General Jose Zuniga, the general commander
03:25of the army in a hallway in the palace.
03:27I am your captain, and I order you to withdraw your soldiers, and I will not allow this insubordination,
03:33Aztec said.
03:34Zuniga told journalists before entering the palace, surely soon there will be a new cabinet
03:38of ministers.
03:39Our country, our state cannot go on like this.
03:41He added that, for now, he recognizes President Aztec as commander-in-chief, the AP reports.
03:47Protests in Bolivia have intensified in the last few months as the Bolivian economy worsens
03:51and Aztec's former ally, former President Evo Morales, has been fighting for the future
03:55of the country's movement for socialism, MAS, ahead of 2025 elections.
03:59Bolivian armed forces took over the capital's central square on Wednesday, and an armoured
04:03vehicle rang through the entrance to the presidential palace followed by soldiers, igniting fears
04:07of a military coup.
04:09Residents said heavily armed soldiers and armoured vehicles were seen gathering in the
04:12central square, Plaza Borilo, while an armoured vehicle pushed into the presidential palace,
04:17which sits on the square, and soldiers rushing in.
04:20The three chiefs of the armed forces have come to express our dismay.
04:23There will be a new cabinet of ministers, surely things will change, but our country
04:27cannot continue like this any longer, General João José Zuniga told a local TV station.
04:32Zuniga addressed reporters in the square prior to the assault on the national palace.
04:36Stop destroying, stop impoverishing our country, stop humiliating our army, he said in full
04:41uniform, flanked by soldiers, insisting the action being taken was supported by the public.
04:47Sasso Arconnedo, Brengue, youth in need in a mortgage is aware.