“The country is facing an attempted coup d’etat. Here we are, firm in Casa Grande, to confront any coup attempt. We need the Bolivian people to organise,” Arce said in a video, surrounded by ministers in the palace.

The scenes have brought alarm to the Andean nation, where former left-wing President Morales, from the same party as Arce, was removed from office in events many described as a coup in 2019.

“We express the strongest condemnation of the attempted coup d’etat in Bolivia,” Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said.

Edit: The coup attempt apparently failed and the article has been updated

  • Lemmygradkoopa
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    15 months ago

    And the General claimed it was all staged afterwards lol. I believe atm that Acre did Sorkin his way out of it, but it’s up there with Fidel representing himself in court and winning levels of implausible yet happened