Bolivian authorities arrested a former general who staged a failed coup attempt Wednesday against President Luis Arce, local media reported.
Juan Jose Zuniga, who was fired earlier this week as commander of the Bolivian Army, "has tried to subvert the constitutional order," said Deputy Interior Minister Jhonny Aguilera before Zuniga’s arrest, according to the Ahora el Pueblo newspaper.
Footage on social media showed Zuniga being forced into a police car outside a military barracks to be taken to the prosecutor's office.
The chief prosecutor's office said an investigation has been launched into the coup attempt and the events surrounding it.
The military uprising began in the afternoon after a tank that carried Zuniga was seen forcibly entering the presidential palace in the city of La Paz.
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