Surprisingly in the midst of the electoral ‘mode’ and the presidential proclamations that the country lives, the government activated the investigations with the execution of an apprehension orders list that reaches politicians, lawyers, military and academics by the Military assonated which arose on June 26, 2024 at the doors of the burned palace. The experts consulted said that these acts seek that the Case ’26j’ Strengthen the image of President Luis Arce before the general elections of August 17.
Two nights after the rupture of the unit block was known The theme of the day were such repercussions towards the opposition, the MAS and the breakdown of the Front for Victory (FPV) with Evo Morales. That night of Thursday, April 10 at the Auditorium of the Central Bank of Bolivia, the Ministry of Government presented an extensive documentary called ‘What happened on 26j in Bolivia?’, Act that had the presence of President Luis Arce, Vice President David Choquehuanca and Ministers.
He documentary He reported that an isolated group of the armed forces, with civil support, tried to perpetrate a military coup that, according to the video libretto – would derive in the death of Bolivians, the detention or murder of the state chief.
So far it was The story that the government has been holding almost 10 months of the fact And with 27 prosecuted people in which the main investigated is the former army general, Juan José Zúñiga, who today keeps preventive detention in the El Abra prison, in Cochabamba, since June 27 of last year.
However, at the end of audiovisual material that lasts a 1 hour and 24 minutesa diagram that indicates that Zúñiga had a cabinet of ministers formed by recognized characters of the Bolivian situation, this based on the investigations that the Peace Prosecutor’s Office and Intelligence Groups of the Bolivian Police.
On Friday, April 11, early in the morning, tactical groups of the Department of Criminal Analysis and Intelligence (DAC) intercepted the vehicle in which The lawyer Jorge Valda was transported Together with his wife when they transferred their little daughter to school.
The lawyer was uploaded to a police truck towards Viru Viru airport to be transferred in a plane to the government headquarters and that is placed before justice because its name was as a possible Minister of Justice or Attorney General of the “future” Government of Zúñiga. From there the political board changed and the discourse of the opponents turned to that environment, with complaints that the president Arce seeks to generate instability to extend himself in power.
The Minister of Government, Eduardo del Castillo, said that Valda’s apprehension also occurred because together with the Activist Fernando Hamdan They were those who allegedly elaborated the speech that Zúñiga would once take possession in the military coup, a document called Foundation 1. According to the authority, they both shuffled the possible ministers that the military would have. Hamdan, who remains in the San Pedro prison since last year, is indicated by Del Castillo as the co -author of the military shot.
“He (Jorge) knew, was aware of the document that Mr. José Zúñiga was going to read. All this is corroborated in Judicial Technical Reports of the IICUTP, and IDIF reports, where chat has been evidenced between Mr. Valda and Hamdan that what was happening was a military coup and that the Government would be called National Liberation Government, ”said Del Castillo.
Jorge Valda is prosecuted for cover -up crimes, terrorism, armed uprising and attentive of magnicide against the president. The other people who allegedly configured the Zúñiga cabinet was economist Gonzalo Chávez as Minister of Economy and Public Finance; Jhosua Bellot, development planning; Paúl Coca, Public Works; José Luis Álvarez, Education; Armin Lluta, productive development, César Gonzales, productive development; Ana María Morales, Justice; and Jaime Dunn, Central Bank.
After that wave of accusations, on Friday four people were apprehended, including Valda in Santa Cruz; the general in retirement of the FF.AA., Marco Bracamonte, in Cochabamba; Bismarck Imaña, a member of the National Defense Group, also in Cochabamba; Mario José Takana Arauz, Colonel in Retiro, in Tarija. The fifth arrest warrant weighs on the dissident deputy of Cremos, Richard Ribera.
The Cruceño legislator acknowledged that Hamdan effectively called him by telephone the day of the military assonada, but to be pronounced as president of the Parliamentary Brigade Cruceña. Ribera now says that he remains for a good collection.
The Retirement General, Marco Bracamonte, taken to police cells /Photo: APG
Intends to show strength
The journalist Carlos Valverde, said that the military assonada is the continuation of the Lie poster, a fact that was denounced by the then Minister of the Presidency, Juan Ramón Quintana, to put together a story against the press in the management of Evo Morales.
In that line, the communicator believes that the Government seeks to set a story, to launch its presidential campaign in order to show their followers that they have strength and continue to kill their executioners with the support of other powers of the State.
“This confirms that this Government like Evo Morales are identical when it comes to imposing power over anything, and above all, generating fear because it is a good brake for opponents,” said Valverde in an interview with El duty.
The government links Hamdan as the co -author of the military shot/ Photo: APG
He considered that this activation of the case is to show a president with character, capable of doing anything, because citizens observe him as a president without value and was none by Zúñiga.
Finally he said that this process will favor DNA candidate, Jaime Dunn, since this space is what the government expected to disperse the vote between Samuel Doria Medina and Jorge Tuto Quiroga.
For his part, the military in passive service, Colonel Jorge Santistevan, said that this government practice occurs when they have opponents that hinder him in governance and try to put them out.
He pointed out that cases such as the Las Américas Hotel, coup I and II no longer have credibility in the population, and Arce resorts to dust off the ‘Zuñigazo’ to “persecute opponents”, with a new list of alleged syndicates, people who have a lot of credibility in the country.
“Instead of applying the regulations for a correct apprehension, they proceed to violate these processes and go to the kidnapping. The persecution of people of relevance is to separate the answering voices so that they are allane the way,” said Santistevan.
The data
Current apprehensions
The Minister of Government, Eduardo del Castillo, said they have other arrest warrants to execute. In addition, there are a list of deputies cited to declare.
They ask for 30 years for Zúñiga
The former army general received a new preventive detention for 30 more days. The Ministry of Government will seek the maximum penalty against Zúñiga and the new ones involved.
