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Military coup attempt in Bolivia – President Arce warns of ‘irregular’ military action | DW News

  • June 26, 2024



Military coup attempt in Bolivia – President Arce warns of ‘irregular’ military action | DW News

we begin with breaking news from Bolivia where a military coup appears to be underway local media showing footage of a military vehicle ramming the presidential Palace you see that right there happening just moments ago soldiers have reportedly taken over the government headquarters in the Capitol Leath and president Luis AR has denounced what he is calling The Irregular movements of the army he’s called for democracy in the south American country to be respected now his predecessor former president Evo Morales also denouncing the actions and calling for resistance Maria Nell plada the minister of the presidency sent out a video from her office in the presidential Palace take a look I want to report an attempted kuat in Bolivia before the Bolivian people and the International Community I am at the presidential Palace I am Mariana de la pra the minister of the presidency as we can see here is the morillo square seized by military tanks and troops we understand this is one Army faction only all the people in the Square have been evacuated and soldiers are not letting anyone in this is a completely irregular situation as you can see they have taken over the four corners and set up military controls troops are inside and we also see troops in front of the presidential Palace that is what is happening here right now it is the 26th of June local time is 1523 I repeat Moro square has been taken over by the army so that what we’re seeing right there happening you know just within the last hour or so I want to go now to journalist meline agilar from the Bolivian city of laas meline just bring us up a date tell us what you know tell us what is happening in Bolivia okay thank you yes we have a situation in Bolivia everything happened started two days ago when the general commander of the army was um after giving a a declaration about Evo Morales saying that he cannot be president anymore he was a he was left the weight of his position in the military army so right beside ER right after that a day after yesterday even though he was already like filed he is still was in charge of the military services so today uh following his order all the military forces went to the principal square muo square and this was a recorded as a unusual movement of a the military services of Bolivia so even the minister of Government tried to understand what was happening then this person Sun the ex General Commander yeah went out of one of these vehicles and had a meeting with the president of Bolivia Luis AR they had a meeting and it seems like the suniga this suniga military person wouldn’t a a follow the order of moving these people out of the square they were not following of the president Mar we’re get we’re getting reports that on live television there in Bolivia um it was shown that the president um in the presidential Palace in the hallway met the general commander of the army and they they stood face to face the president ordered the general Commander to to have his troops to go back to their barracks and to leave the city can you confirm that I mean was the okay so that happened and the general commander of the army refused to follow the orders of the president yes that’s exactly what happened the president told the general Commander move these people I am ordering you to do that and he just stood there and so the president I say asked are you not going to follow my order and he say no so angrily the the president just went back but after a while they actually moved from the principal square but the military is still in that square so it seemed like it was a a confront between the president and the general Commander but mine explain for people around the world you know who were just tuning in they you know people have no idea what’s going on inside Bolivia is this something unexpected I mean are you surprised to mean what has been happening that would bring the country to the brink well we are leaving an economic crisis we don’t have a gasoline there are no dollars and the prices are going up so it’s it’s an economic crisis and people are like scared for example it was announced that there will be a blocking of the principal Goods in the in in the the whole country today but yesterday they finally got to a conclusion so it wouldn’t be a problem today however people were people were scared already but we we were we weren’t expecting something like that we weren’t expecting a military movement so yes we are in crisis but we weren’t expecting this kind of event yeah yeah I mean certainly um a a a a shock and the the images that we’re getting there we certainly we wish you and everyone there in laas all the best and please stay safe journalist meline agila reporting on what appears to be a coup attempt in Bolivia meline thank you yes it hasn’t been confirmed but it seems like it’s one okay thank you

Military coup attempt in Bolivia. Live pictures from La Paz show Soldiers have taken over the government headquarters. President Luis Arce denounced what he called the irregular movements of the army, and called for democracy to be respected. His predecessor, former President Evo Morales denounced the actions and called for resistance.

For more on that Breaking News story, we talk to journalist Madeleyne Aguilar from the Bolivian city of La Paz.

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50 comments

  6. interesting people think this is the CIA. If anyone knows or understands anything about Bolivia they would be looking more at the Mexican Cartel and China.

  10. Since the US under Trump stopped acting as the world police all the little dictators think they can do as they please… Scary. I always was a mayor sceptic of most of the US foreign policies but after the last couple of years I have to admit… They were at least partwise right.

  19. Instesd if wadting time on Sunak, the media need to be focusing on Labour and Starmar because they will be dealing with Labour not the dosgraced tories by next week.

  22. When military generals use their command to overthrow their government dictatorship follows the people should worry their freedoms are gone.

  28. DO NOT EVER think that what has happened in Bolivia , cannot occur in The United States of America. 🇺🇲🇺🇸🛡️🗡️⚔️🦅⚓🌎🪖💣💥🔥🇺🇲🇺🇸

  30. that was a weird "coup" attempt the troops that went into the building were all dressed in riot gear some carrying riot shields and armed with just shotguns and launchers for gas and batons…they go inside and are met with the president and a group of his people in a hallway and speeches are uttered and everyone leaves

  34. I wonder why many US media turning off they comment.? Are they try to keep US citizen seeing almost every people from around the world will keep chant CIA, CIA.. 😂😂😂

  40. Slowly ramming a door that is clearly already open on both sides… As a Gringo that lived in Peru before, during and after the Peruvian's last presidents failed coup attempt, I can tell you the USA and CIA was involved in the Peruvian coup. And there is no coincidence they were and that there have been so many failed coup attempts in South America over the last 4 years.

  42. Coming from a country with quite some experience in military coups, there's no military coup without a single shot, there's something else going on

  50. Hmmm…a coup???
    The USA must be the source of it.
    Smells like the USAs strategy to continue it's global dominance.
    Can you say….Ukraine 2014.

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