Expected to hear about how Elon, China, or Russia may have been involved to get cheap lithium…
But apparently it’s that this was a setup to generate support for the current admin. And yeah, shit kind of seems like that:
“If it was a coup, the presidency would have purged the armed forces,” said Col. Jorge Santiesteban, a Bolivian security expert. “The president rewarded the commander-in-chief who didn’t do anything about a major insurrection committed by his subordinate.”
It was also odd that the rebellion was led by Zúñiga, a loyalist who owes his position and high rank to President Arce.
Photos of Arce and Zúñiga shooting hoops together just days before June 26 splattered across social media. As rumors swirled about their close friendship, senior Cabinet member María Nela Prada went on Bolivian TV, unprompted, to say the two are not brothers-in-law.