Juan Jos\u00e9 Z\u00fa\u00f1iga, a general in the army, and his co-conspirators, who attempted a coup to overthrow democratically elected President Luis Acre on Wednesday, are now under arrest.<\/p>\n
Bolivian minister of government, Eduardo del Castillo, told journalists that Mr Z\u00fa\u00f1iga and former navy Vice Adm. Juan Arnez Salvador were arrested after the failed coup on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was this group\u2019s goal? The goal was to overturn the democratically elected authority,\u201d Mr del Castillo said, announcing the arrest of the coup plotters.<\/p>\n
Late on Wednesday, Mr Z\u00fa\u00f1iga led troops to the presidential palace in a dramatic way that saw armoured vehicles ram through the palace gate.<\/p>\n
However, Mr Acre confronted the mutineers, calling on Bolivians to resist military takeover.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe country is facing an attempted coup d\u2019\u00e9tat,\u201d Mr Acre, who was surrounded by his ministers, said in a live video. Here we are, firm in Casa Grande, to confront any coup attempt. We need the Bolivian people to organise.\u201d<\/p>\n
Faced with stiff opposition, the mutineers withdrew troops from the presidential palace on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
The failed coup came amid an economic crisis in the South American country, while Mr Arce and his political ally, former President Evo Morales, tussled over control of the ruling political party, Movement Toward Socialism. Mr Arce served as Mr Morales\u2019 economy and finance minister for 11 years.<\/p>\n
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Juan Jos\u00e9 Z\u00fa\u00f1iga, a general in the army, and his co-conspirators, who attempted a coup to overthrow democratically elected President Luis Acre on Wednesday, are now under arrest. Bolivian minister of government, Eduardo del Castillo, told journalists that Mr Z\u00fa\u00f1iga and former navy Vice Adm. Juan Arnez Salvador were arrested after the failed coup on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":36526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36527,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36525\/revisions\/36527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}