LA PAZ, Bolivia — A plan to stage a coup against Bolivia’s president was not what Gen. Tomás Peña y Lillo was expecting when he entered the military headquarters in La Paz last Wednesday. An armored vehicle and military police form outside the government palace in what President Luis Arce said was an attempted coup, at Plaza Murillo in La …
LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivian President Luis Arce on Thursday angrily called accusations that he was behind an attempted coup against his government “lies,” saying the general who apparently led it acted on his own and vowing that he would face justice. Bolivian President Luis Arce raises a clenched fist surrounded by supporters and media, outside the government palace in …