Attempts to carry out a coup d’etat in Bolivia continue, there are groups that want to force the resignation of the president, the country’s Foreign Minister Celinda Sosa said.
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“There are still attempts, we are not going to say that everything really stopped there, there are still some groups that are trying to force the president to resign, to speed up the elections, but there are people who are standing firm,” she said.
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“It was not easy for us to restore democracy after the 2019 coup, which claimed more than 36 lives, when thousands of people were injured, persecuted, expelled, tortured. We Bolivians learned a big lesson about what a coup d’etat is,” the minister added.
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At the end of June, a group of Bolivian military officers led by General Juan José Zuniga blocked Plaza Murillo in La Paz, where government buildings are located, demanding the restoration of democracy and the release of political prisoners, and also announced the upcoming appointment of a government. After the military used an armored personnel carrier to break down the door to the presidential palace, President Luis Arce met with Zuniga and ordered him to withdraw the soldiers. In response to the insubordination, the president swore in new military leadership, which ordered the rebels to leave the square in the capital.
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As a result of the confrontation between military personnel and residents of La Paz in the central square, 14 people were injured. After these events, law enforcement officers detained over 20 people involved in the coup attempt.
