🇨🇺 🤝 🇧🇴 Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel condemns Bolivian coup

🔶️ The outrage against democracy and the Bolivian people shown in the images of international media this afternoon in #Bolivia.

🔶️ We repudiate the attempted coup d'état underway and extend all the solidarity of the Cuban Government and people to brother Luis Acre.

📎 Miguel Díaz-Canel

🇨🇴 🤝 🇧🇴 Colombian President Gustavo Petro condemns the coup:

"Total rejection of the military coup in Bolivia. I invite all the Bolivian people to democratic resistance.

Latin America must unite in favor of democracy. The Colombian embassy must grant refuge to the persecuted.

There will be no diplomatic relationship between Colombia and the dictatorship.

An antidemocratic coup is met with widespread mobilization of the people."

📎 Gustavo Petro

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The EU condemns the on-going coup attempt in Bolivia.

Gay

🇧🇴 Kahlo: "Judging by the list of potential pardoned, the province of Santa Cruz will burn next.

🔶️ Now we are watching to see whether the police will go over to the side of the army."

📎 Kahlo

🇧🇴 President Luis Arce swears in new military commanders amid an ongoing coup attempt in Bolivia carried out by factions of the armed forces.

📎 Camila

🇧🇴 Bolivia Coup Summary:

1) Army commander says Evo Morales can’t be allowed to run for president again
2) President Arce fires Army commander
3) Army commander sends troops to seize government palace in attempted coup
4) int’l community condemns attempted coup

📎 Brian Winter

🇧🇴Reminder: Bolivia has the largest lithium reserves in the world.

#Bolivia #resources

☠️ Blood Meridian

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The former head of the Army Zúñiga left Murillo Square after several hours of tensions, it is unknown where he's heading however there are still multiple mobilized military personnel in the streets defying the orders to return to the barracks.

🇧🇴 Bolivia coup attempt appears to have failed.

🔶️ All army forces have now left Plaza Murillo along with coup leader General Zuniga.

📎 Clash Report

🇵🇸 🇮🇱 🇱🇧 N12 News Israel-Lebanon summary:

1. IDF decides to transfer forces from Gaza to Lebanon front to prep for potential war vs Hezbollah.
2. IDF Northern Command is starting to train newly arrived forces for operations inside Lebanon.
3. Israeli reserve forces held large-scale drill today to practice war scenarios including mountain warfare & urban combat.
4. Senior IDF source says Israel will need to take very powerful military action in Lebanon.
5. Defense Minister Gallant's trip to Washington is part of wide-ranging Israeli steps to ensure readiness for large-scale conflict, in case last-minute diplomatic efforts to avert war fail.
via N12News

📎 Israel Radar

🇧🇴 What was the attempted coup in Bolivia about?

After army units began leaving the main square in the capital La Paz just a few hours after the attempted coup began, everyone can't stop asking: "What actually happened?"

While former president Evo Morales called on trade unions to bring people to the streets in support of democracy and the official government, acting president Luis Arce swore in new military leadership under General José Wilson Sánchez, who immediately ordered the military to leave the main square in La Paz.

They did so, without much resistance. The first to leave was the rebel General Suñiga himself. A few hours later, he was arrested. Two other commanders were also taken into custody: former Navy Commander Juan Arnes Salvador and Air Force General Marcelo Javier Segarra. Suñiga is currently charged with terrorism and armed rebellion.

Interestingly, Suñiga calmly awaited arrest, and also had the opportunity to tell journalists that President Arce himself asked him to organize the uprising, concerned about "the decline of his own popularity."

However, the "attempt" turned out to be, to put it mildly, rather poor. General Suñiga's right-wing rhetoric, voicing opposition talking points and planning to free certain political prisoners, was not dared to be supported by either the right-conservative political circles in Bolivia itself, or even Arce and Morales' foreign critics (for example, the leadership of Argentina). The White House didn't even give any coherent reaction, only calling for calm and restraint.

Now the Bolivian leadership is stating that the situation in the armed forces is "fully under control," but the public expects new arrests and - not surprisingly - a serious "purge" of the army ranks.

Western media comment on the situation cautiously - but try to highlight General Suñiga's point of view about growing discontent in the country against the backdrop of an economic downturn due to the central bank's depleted resources. In addition, theses are published about the existence of a rift between Arce and Morales, who plans to run for president in the 2025 elections.

In this regard, the following points of view on the events currently prevail:

▪️ What happened was a staged event, the purpose of which is not a coup, but to create a split in the current Bolivian leadership. Now the opposition has a reason to endlessly pedal the issue of whether Arce ordered Suñiga to cordon off the Murillo square or not.

▪️ The military leadership, represented by Suñiga and his partners, was misled about the support for their actions from the true organizers of the mutiny, who either did not intend to bring the matter to an end, or stopped the events for other reasons.

▪️ Many see a connection between the incident and the recent visit of President Arce to Russia. There he discussed the lithium complex project being implemented in Bolivia by the company Uranium One, which is part of the Rosatom structure (the facility is planned to be put into operation in 2025). Arce also asked the Russian authorities to assist in ensuring the supply of liquid hydrocarbons, which Bolivia is in dire need of.

❗️In the latter case, such actions affect the interests of the United Original msg