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PREVIEW: #BOLIVIA: Conversation with colleague Joseph Humire re the theatrical and fake coup (self-coup) in La Paz, likely directed by the beleaguered President Arce. More tonight.

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🗓️ 1 July 2024

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PREVIEW: #BOLIVIA: Conversation with colleague Joseph Humire re the theatrical and fake coup (self-coup) in La Paz, likely directed by the beleaguered President Arce. More tonight.

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0:00.0

This is John Batcheter, conversation with my good colleague Joseph Vomire, Executive Director of

0:06.2

Secure Free Society, about the coup in Bolivia that took place over these last days. There is a word in Spanish meaning self-coo. The

0:16.4

suspicion and Joseph lays out the grounds is that the president of the country, Arse, proposed a fake coup to the general who

0:28.5

led the so-called coup on the palace to distract from the economic conditions that have collapsed.

0:36.0

Even Morales, the former dictator of Bolivia is involved in this decision-making as well. Blaming Arse or participating with Arse, in any event

0:46.8

we're looking at the beginning of disruption, turmoil, and trouble in Bolivia and perhaps in the whole region.

0:56.8

So Joseph supplies some details about the general who led the coup, the self-coo, who was the self-confessed actor. Bolivia, a poor country going through a

1:08.6

bad patch but Eva Morales has been in charge of Bolivia for many years he's also a regional boss. Joseph

1:16.8

Omar executive director of security society more of this tonight. The general

1:21.4

in question the general that was so-called leading this coup, right, is his name is Juan Jose Zuniga.

1:26.0

That's a general that A is very well known to law enforcement authorities because he's known or these these cues alleged

1:33.6

of being involved with the narco flights to Venezuela. He's a general that's in

1:37.9

charge of bringing cocaine from Bolivia to Venezuela. Two, he's a general that

1:42.4

traveled to Iran last year to work out that MOU, that defense agreement that Believing Iran signed recently,

1:49.7

and specifically working out the details of that.

1:52.2

And 3, he's a general that when he was a

1:53.9

colonel years ago was served six days in prison because he was caught

1:58.9

embezzling money from the military coffers. And in fact the way he he got out of prison was Kuz of Evel Morales himself.

2:06.0

So what I'm doing is I'm painting the picture of an individual that's corrupt,

2:10.0

that's involved in all kinds of narco-terra's deals deals that highly unlikely that he was going to rebel

2:15.1

against the ruling power.

2:17.4

What I do think happened in Bolivia was I think that the Bolivia was the government and

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