Bolivian government rejects coup theory: 'It's a lie, unthinkable and reckless'

He Government of Bolivia This Thursday he expressed his strongest rejection of the version “coup d’etat“given by the alleged leaders of the attempted military uprising, already detained by the country’s security forces, and assured that this is the idea”false, unthinkable and reckless“.

Minister of the PresidentMaria Nela Prada condemned this information and emphasized that the words of the general Juan Jose Zunigamain suspect in leading the riots, “absolutely false“He thus accused some military personnel of “take your little piece political positioning, solely based on personal interests, trying to distort what happened.”

In this sense, he stressed that what happened on Wednesday afternoon in Murillo Square, located in the center of the city of La Paz, was “unusual military movement“, that “under the leadership of Juan José Zúñiga, burst in and forcibly opened the door of the old presidential palace with the help of a combat tank.”

However, he explained that “what was experienced is coup attempt, failed coup “It was stopped” and rejected such “completely reckless statements that are contrary to respect for our Constitution and our democracy,” as reported by the El Deber newspaper.

Government Minister, Eduardo del Castillopreviously denied that it was “simulacrum“. “How can we talk about exercises, about a fraudulent coup attempt, when we already have Key leaders are currently detained“How can we discuss such a delicate issue (…) when 12 people are currently injured?” he said.

Zúñiga insisted that what had happened was a self-coup carried out with the connivance of President Luis Arce, who had asked him to put the armored vehicles on the streets to “do something that would increase his popularity,” statements that have caused controversy in the country.

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Source: Aristegui Noticias

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