fake or real, the attempted coup exposes the country’s deep underlying turmoil
- Written by Nicolas Forsans, Professor of Management and Co-director of the Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, University of Essex
When heavily armed troops, spearheaded by a tank, broke through the gates of Bolivia’s presidential palace in La Paz on June 26, it appeared that the country’s military was mounting an armed coup with the aim of replacing the left-wing government of Luis Arce.
The leader of the uprising, Juan José Zúñiga, who was a...
