(29 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
La Paz, Bolivia - 29 June 2024
1. General Juan José Zúñiga being transferred from Special Operations headquarters to maximum-security prison Chonchocoro, Zúñiga is addressed by journalists and speaks UPSOUND (Spanish) "At some point the truth will be known. The rest are innocent. They are innocent people.”
2. Media
3. Various of police truck leaving building
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Eduardo del Castillo, Senior Cabinet member:
"We were waiting for orders to transfer Arnez, Zúñiga, and Iraola (former Armed Forces commanders Juan José Zúñiga, Juan Arnez, and Edison Iraola) to Chonchocoro (maximum security prison). We are receiving reports from all the special anti-crime forces and intelligence groups in order to be able, in the shortest time possible, to get to the truth of the facts, what really happened."
5. Building
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Eduardo del Castillo, Senior Cabinet member:
"We also have the names of people who would have been part of Zúñiga's cabinet of ministers."
7. Various of people gathered outside the building where the accused are held, sign reading (Spanish) "No to the coup. Zúñiga, to prison."
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Esther Campos, protester:
"Well, it's important. It is the highest security penitentiary. So we assume with the guilt they carry, they should be in Chonchoro (maximum security prison)."
9. Bolivian Police Special Forces building
STORYLINE:
A Bolivian general accused of leading a failed coup was sent Saturday to a maximum-security prison as he faced charges of terrorism and starting an armed uprising.

“At some point, the truth will be known,” a handcuffed Gen. Juan José Zúñiga told journalists as he was escorted by two guards to the vehicle that will take him to the Chonchocoro maximum-security prison on the outskirts of La Paz.

“The rest are innocent. They are innocent people,” he added. Two other former military chiefs, including former Navy Vice Adm. Juan Arnez Salvador, were also taken to the same prison.

Zúñiga, who was arrested Wednesday after the rebellion, said before being taken into custody, without providing evidence, that President Luis Arce ordered him to carry out the rebellion — something that the Bolivian leader and his government have vigorously denied.

Arce told The AP on Friday that Zúñiga planned to “take over” the government and become president, and he denied once again that Wednesday’s attack on the government palace was a “self-coup” designed to garner him political points.

Authorities have arrested 21 people, including Zúñiga, who were in custody in police facilities in La Paz. All of them face charges of armed uprising and terrorism.

Fourteen of the detainees appeared on Saturday before a judge.

AP Video shot by Carlos Guerrero

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