Former Bolivian minister Carlos Sánchez Berzaín described “self-coup” Wednesday’s uprising of a group of soldiers against the Government of Luis Arcewhile another former official who does not want to be identified told EFE that it must be taken seriously because it could have been a “trial balloon”.
Sánchez Berzaín stressed in his account of X that it was a “self-coup, simulation or settling of accounts.”
Berzaín, a refugee in the United States since the fall in 2003 of the then president of Bolivia, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, of whom he was minister, added that what occurred on the afternoon of June 26 in “a nation subjected to the dictatorships of 21st century socialism″. For the former Minister of Defense, what happened yesterday is part of the “disorder of a dictatorship in crisis.”
Another Bolivian political source in the United States who asked not to be identified told EFE that the incident is serious because it could have been a “test balloon” to gauge the public’s reaction and eventually bring it to reality.
“This is a trial balloon and we must take it carefully, seriously (…). “We should not minimize it as many say it is an antics.”he indicated.
He also added that “fades away” that it was a military coup because a large part of the personnel that went there were military police and afterward no unit has expressed its support. “It does not have the characteristics of a military coup anywhere”.
“The root of this problem is the institutions, the democratic principles, the independence of powers, the corruption in the Army is tremendous,” he added.
Thursday’s military uprising in Bolivia, which managed to control the government and arrest the leader, the already dismissed General Juan José Zúñiga, has generated doubts in the international community.
The event raises many questions in a country in economic and social crisis and with former President Evo Morales facing off against the current president, who was previously one of his closest collaborators.
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Source: Gestion
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