A senior Bolivian general who attempted a coup was arrested and paraded before news cameras in handcuffs as the nation's president urged his citizens to rise up against any further attempts to topple the government.
Meanwhile, security teams descended on the palace and arrested Zuniga, who was confronted directly by the president in a grand hallway in a moment that was captured by Bolivian cameras. Dismissed Bolivian Army general commander Juan Jose Zuniga is presented at the premises of the Special Force Against Crime after his arrest for being part of a military takeover against the governmentBolivian President Luis Arce addresses crowd amid coup attempt in La Paz, Bolivia on June 26, 2024
Less than an hour later, Arce announced new heads of the army, navy and air force amid the roar of supporters, and thanked the country's police and regional allies for standing by him.'I order all that are mobilised to return to their units,' said the newly named army chief Jose Wilson Sanchez. 'No one wants the images we're seeing in the streets.'
Zuniga referenced that paralysis during the rebellion, telling reporters the military was tired of the infighting and was seeking 'to restore democracy'. People help a man stunned by a flash grenade thrown by military police during a coup attempt against the government of Bolivian President Luis Arce by military units led by General Juan Jose Zuniga, in La Paz, Bolivia June 26, 2024
'The president told me, ''the situation is very screwed up, very critical. It is necessary to prepare something to raise my popularity'',' the general said.
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