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Bolivia’s Arce faces off with army amid attempted coup (www.aljazeera.com)

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“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

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[–] landlords_morghulis@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 months ago

I was watching some live footage and it was suggested this was a response to Morales trying to enter government again. I was seeing it as an open threat of a coup from the military that they weren't prepared to carry any further, more than a serious coup attempt. But, maybe I'm less skeptical than I need to be.