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Bolivia's Interior Minister Presents Detained General Zuñiga to Media

© AP Photo / Juan KaritaBolivian police hold the detained Juan José Zuñiga, former general commander of the Army, in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Bolivian police hold the detained Juan José Zuñiga, former general commander of the Army, in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, June 26, 2024 - Sputnik International, 1920, 27.06.2024
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LA PAZ (Sputnik) - Bolivian Interior Minister Eduardo del Castillo has presented former Commander-in-Chief General Juan José Zuñiga, who has been detained after a coup attempt, to the media, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Wednesday.
Zuniga was in handcuffs and was wearing a bulletproof vest that read "detained," the correspondent reported.
"It is not going to be an easy process," the minister said, adding that the general had made an attempt on the lives of Bolivian President Luis Arce and Vice President David Choquehuanca, as well as committed an uprising against the people of Bolivia.
The minister added that at least nine people suffered gunshot wounds during the coup attempt.
Police officers stand guard at Plaza Murillo in La Paz on June 26, 2024. Bolivian President Luis Arce on Wednesday slammed an attempted coup d'etat after soldiers and tanks deployed outside government buildings and tried to knock down a door of the presidential palace, before pulling back - Sputnik International, 1920, 26.06.2024
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General Zuñiga Reportedly Leading Bolivian Coup Attempt: 'We Will Regain Our Homeland’
Earlier in the day, local media reported the presence of the military at Murillo Square, the central square of Bolivia's capital, La Paz, where government buildings are located. Arce urged respect for democracy and called the events in La Paz a coup attempt. The Bolivian president also swore in the new heads of the military, air force, and navy amid the coup attempt by Zuniga.
Zuniga was detained later on Wednesday after the prosecutor's office of Bolivia launched criminal investigations against the general and other participants in the coup attempt. Bolivia's attorney general's office accused Zuniga of terrorism and armed uprising.
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