2024-07-01 04:38:53
The Authorities of Bolivia this Thursday introduced 17 troopers who allegedly participated within the “tried coup d’état” towards Luis Arce and acknowledged that it’s behind a number of fugitives who deliberate and executed these actions underneath the orders of the dismissed army chief Juan José Zúñiga.
“A complete of 17 individuals have been arrested for trying to hold out a coup d’état,” stated the Minister of Authorities (Inside), Eduardo del Castillo, at a press convention wherein he displayed the detainees.
Del Castillo introduced an organizational chart that established the participation of a number of army personnel, together with some in retired service, who deliberate “since Might” the intervention in Plaza Murillo, in La Paz, the seat of the Government 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 drive” 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 particular person, 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 Colorados Regiment of Bolivia, a army division in command of presidential safety.
Along with the particular person in command of the Viacha barracks, a municipality close to La Paz, from the place on Sunday the armored automobiles that took over Plaza Murillo left on Sunday, and the top of the barracks of the agricultural inhabitants of Achacachi, who had to offer the weapons to hold out the the operation.
The interior intelligence work that didn’t detect the army motion and the position of the previous commander in chief of the Armed Forces “are features which can be being investigated,” the minister talked about.
Extra arrests introduced
Del Castillo stated 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 sought are three army personnel in passive service and an Military main, who was chargeable for coordinating the actions on the Government and Legislative headquarters.
2024-07-01 04:38:53