Bolivia’s President Luis Arce has denounced the “irregular mobilisation” of army units in La Paz, amid an apparent attempted military coup in the South American nation.
Footage broadcast on Bolivian media showed an army vehicle ramming into the entrance of the presidential palace on Wednesday, as soldiers gathered in the adjacent Plaza Murillo.
“The three chiefs of the armed forces have come to express our dismay,” General Juan Jose Zuñiga told a local television crew. “There will be a new cabinet of ministers, surely things will change, but our country cannot continue like this any longer.”
Bolivia’s leftist former president Evo Morales, who has been publicly feuding with his onetime protégé Arce, accused Zuñiga of attempting to carry out a coup d’état.
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