{"id":808,"date":"2024-06-27T08:10:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T08:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=808"},"modified":"2024-06-27T08:10:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T08:10:30","slug":"how-tensions-in-bolivia-fueled-an-attempt-to-oust-president-arce-from-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=808","title":{"rendered":"How tensions in Bolivia fueled an attempt to oust President Arce from power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) \u2014 Armored vehicles\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bolivia-military-deployment-arce-coup-fears-028cd88f3be1fb02164c05deb0faa099\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">rammed into the doors of Bolivia\u2019s government palace<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on Wednesday as President Luis Arce said his country faced an apparent attempted coup.<\/p>\n<p>In a sense, the uprising was the culmination of tensions that\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bolivia-morales-arce-political-economic-crisis-d38051e051a2e6473a18133e4a9c6120\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">have been brewing in Bolivia for months<\/a><\/span>, with protesters streaming into the nation\u2019s capital amid a severe economic crisis and as two political titans battle for control of the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the attempt to take over the palace appeared to have lacked any meaningful support, and even Arce\u2019s rivals quickly closed ranks to defend democracy and repudiate the uprising.<\/p>\n<h2>What appears to have triggered this?<\/h2>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s uprising appeared to be led by general commander of the army Juan Jos\u00e9 Z\u00fa\u00f1iga, who told journalists gathered at the plaza outside the palace that \u201cSurely soon there will be a new Cabinet of ministers; our country, our state cannot go on like this.\u201d But he added that he recognizes Arce as commander in chief \u201cfor now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) \u2014 Armored vehicles\u00a0rammed into the doors of Bolivia\u2019s government palace\u00a0on Wednesday as President Luis Arce said his country faced an apparent attempted coup. In a sense,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[],"views":178,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}