LA PAZ (Reuters) -Bolivia’s government has summoned the Argentine ambassador following comments by the office of Argentina’s President Javier Milei which repudiated claims of an attempted coup last week in La Paz as “fraudulent.”
Interim Foreign Minster Maria Nela Prada told a press conference that Bolivia’s government “energetically rejects” the comments from Milei’s office and that its ambassador to Argentina had also been called in for talks.
Now-detained General Juan Jose Zuniga last Wednesday led military units to gather in the main square of La Paz, home to the presidential palace and Congress. An armored vehicle rammed a palace door to allow soldiers to rush into the building.
Zuniga later said he was following an order from President Luis Arce, who has denied having any involvement or prior knowledge of Zuniga’s operation.
But on Sunday, Milei’s office issued a statement saying the government’s statements on the matter were “not very credible” and “repudiated the false accusation of a coup d’etat by the Bolivian government on June 26, confirmed as fraudulent.”
(Reporting by Daniel Ramos; Writing by Sarah Morland; Editing by David Alire Garcia and Anthony Esposito)
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