Former heads of Bolivia’s army and navy arrested over failed coup
by Tom Phillips and Dan Collyns in La Paz from World news | The Guardian on (#6NTSN)
Minister says alleged putschists will be charged with crimes after apparent mutiny in volatile country
The former heads of Bolivia's army and navy are among a dozen people so far arrested for their alleged roles in a seemingly bungled military coup designed to topple the South American country's leftwing president, Luis Arce.
Speaking on Thursday morning, just over 12 hours after the fleeting insurrection in La Paz, Bolivia's minister of government, Eduardo Del Castillo, accused the former army chief Gen Juan Jose Zuniga Macias and the former head of the navy R Adm Juan Arnez Salvador of leading a group of putschists who had conspired to bring down a democratically elected government".
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