The former president of Bolivia repudiated the attempted coup d’état and assured: “We will not allow the Armed Forces to violate democracy and intimidate the people.”
Behind the violent coup attempt in Boliviathe country’s former president, Evo Moralesasked “the people with a democratic vocation” to demonstrate to “defend the Homeland from some military groups“. In this way, he joined the current president, Luis Arcewho had also called on the “Bolivian people to mobilize.”
Through your X account, Morales, who was president of Bolivia between 2006 and 2019, called for a “national mobilization to defend democracy against the coup d’état that is brewing at the head of the Gen. Zuñiga. We declare general strike indefinite and road blocking. We will not allow the Armed Forces to violate democracy and intimidate the people,” he emphasized.
Regarding the current situation that the country is going through, convulsed after the Army’s assault on Palacio Quemado, the former headquarters of the Bolivian government, He added that “a Group of the Challapata Special Regiment ‘Mendez Arcos’ took the Plaza Murillo with snipers. This seems to indicate that “prepared the coup d’état in advance,” he denounced.
“I ask the people with a democratic vocation to defend the Homeland from some military groups that act against democracy and the people,” he stressed in his call to mobilize.
Luis Arce called on the Bolivian people to “mobilize against the Coup d’état”
In the midst of this strong political and social crisis, the president Luis Arce spoke with his cabinet on national television and called for demonstrations against the acts of violence that took place this afternoon: “We need the Bolivian people mobilize against the coup d’état“he said surrounded by his management team.
Through a live broadcast on Facebook, The Bolivian president denounced: “The country today is facing a Coup d’état. “The country once again faces interests for democracy in Bolivia to be truncated.”
“Here is the Government with all its ministers standing firm here in Casa Grande to stop any coup attemptany attempt that threatens our democracy,” the president insisted.
The actions of the Bolivian Army in Peace They occur in the context of the dismissal of a Juan José Zúñigacommander of that force that took place yesterday, after statements about Evo Morales. “There is going to be a new cabinet, our country cannot continue like this any longer”had advanced Zuñiga.
Source: Ambito
