The interim foreign minister of Bolivia, María Nela Prada, summoned the ambassador to Argentina, Ramiro Tapia, for consultation.
After the controversy over the statement from the Office of the Argentine Presidency about the failed coup d'état in Bolivia, the interim chancellor, María Nela Prada, summoned the Argentine ambassador to the highland country, Marcelo Adrián Massoni.
“It has been decided, as the Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, to summon the ambassador of the Argentine Republic in our country, recently arrived, to express our strong rejection of the statements made by the Office of the President of the Argentine Republic, Javier Milei,” Prada said at a press conference in La Paz.
Likewise, the authority indicated that the Bolivian ambassador to Argentina, Ramiro Tapia, was summoned for consultation “so that he may be present at the headquarters of Government.”
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On Sunday, in a statement, President Milei's office said that it "repudiates the false claim of a coup d'état made by the Bolivian government on Wednesday, June 26, and confirmed as fraudulent today."
That statement generated an immediate response. This Monday morning, the Bolivian Foreign Ministry issued a statement rejecting Milei's "unfriendly and reckless" statements about the "failed coup."
What's more, on the same day of the military operation, when a group of soldiers, with tanks and heavily armed, took over Plaza Murillo and tried to enter the Palacio Quemando, several presidents and political leaders expressed their support for the Bolivian government.
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That action was led by former Army Commander General Juan José Zúñiga, now preventively detained in the El Abra prison, in Cochabamba, a precautionary measure ordered by justice that also affected Marcelo Zegarra, former commander of the Bolivian Air Force (FAB), to the former commander of the Navy Vice Admiral Juan Arnez Salvador y Zúñiga .
The Government attributed the “failure” of that “coup” to the change in the Military High Command and the “quick reaction” of President Luis Arce.
Some political actors in Bolivia, such as former President Evo Morales, described Wednesday's failed military action as a “self-coup.” “Lucho (Arce) lied, he deceived the Bolivian people and the entire world with this coup or self-coup,” he considered .
Along the same lines, the elected governor of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, thanked Milei for his statement and his “concern” for democracy in Bolivia.
