2024-06-28 07:43:39
The Bolivian authorities on Thursday offered 17 navy personnel who allegedly participated within the “tried coup” in opposition to Luis Arce and said that it’s behind a number of fugitives who deliberate and executed these actions underneath the orders of the dismissed navy chief Juan José Zúñiga.
“A complete of 17 individuals 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 by which he displayed the detainees.
Del Castillo offered an organizational chart that established the participation of a number of navy 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 among “preparation and planning”, one other of “group and coordination”, of “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 accountable for presidential safety.
Along with the individual accountable for the Viacha barracks, a municipality close to La Paz, from the place the armoured automobiles that took over Plaza Murillo the day earlier than left on Sunday, and the pinnacle of the barracks within the rural city of Achacachi, who was to offer the weapons to hold out the operation.
The inner intelligence work that didn’t detect the navy motion and the function of the previous commander in chief of the Armed Forces “are elements which are being investigated,” the minister talked about.
Extra arrests introduced
Del Castillo maintained that “the primary 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 navy personnel in passive service and an Military main, who was liable for coordinating the actions on the Government and Legislative headquarters.
2024-06-28 07:43:39