2024-06-30 18:04:11
The Bolivian authorities on Thursday offered 17 navy personnel who allegedly participated within the “tried coup” in opposition to Luis Arce and acknowledged that it’s behind a number of fugitives who deliberate and executed these actions below the orders of the dismissed navy chief Juan José Zúñiga.
“A complete of 17 folks have been arrested for having tried to hold out a coup d’état,” declared the Minister of Authorities (Inside), Eduardo del Castillo, in a press convention during which he displayed the detainees.
Del Castillo offered an organizational chart during which the participation of a number of troopers was established, together with some in passive service, who deliberate “because the month of Might” the intervention in Plaza Murillo, in La Paz, headquarters of the Govt and Legislative powers. .
He defined that these troopers had been a part of a plan made up of 4 teams: one for “preparation and planning,” one other for “group and coordination,” one other for “train and power” and “consolidation of energy.”
The minister emphasised that the chief of the takeover was Zúñiga and that the “articulator” was the additionally dismissed and detained Navy commander Juan Arnez, supported by a civilian thought-about one of many “ideologists” of the plan.
Exactly this final individual, on the time of his presentation to the media, stated that he was declaring himself on a “dry starvation strike” as a result of his rights had supposedly been “violated” and he was not allowed to defend himself.
Del Castillo stated that amongst these investigated and detained is the commander of the Colorado Regiment of Bolivia, the navy division in control of presidential safety.
Along with the individual in control of the Viacha barracks, a municipality close to La Paz, from the place on Sunday the armored autos that took over Plaza Murillo left on Sunday, and the pinnacle of the barracks of the agricultural inhabitants of Achacachi, who had to supply the weapons to hold out the the operation.
The interior intelligence work that did not detect the navy motion and the function of the previous commander in chief of the Armed Forces “are features which can be being investigated,” the minister stated.
Extra arrests introduced
Del Castillo maintained that “the principle goal” of his workplace and the Police is “the arrest of all members” of the group that “deliberate the fee of the coup d’état.”
Amongst these wished are three retired navy personnel and an Military main, who was credited with coordinating the actions on the headquarters of the Govt and Legislative branches.
2024-06-30 18:04:11