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Bolivian General Is Arrested After Apparent Coup Attempt [1]

['Julie Turkewitz', 'Genevieve Glatsky', 'María Silvia Trigo']

Date: 2024-06-26

After trying to storm the presidential palace in Bolivia on Wednesday, members of the country’s military, led by a top general, quickly retreated in an apparent failed attempt at a coup.

Video on Bolivian television showed security forces in riot gear occupying the main square in the administrative capital, La Paz, a camouflaged military vehicle ramming a palace door and soldiers trying to make their way into the palace.

Then, just as quickly as they had appeared, the general, Juan José Zuñiga disappeared, and his supporters in the armed forces pulled back and were replaced by police officers supporting the country’s democratically elected president, Luis Arce.

Mr. Arce ventured onto the plaza after calling on Bolivians “to organize and mobilize against the coup and in favor of democracy.”

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/world/americas/bolivia-unrest-military.html

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