Governments throughout the region react to events in Bolivia

The United States is closely monitoring the situation in Bolivia and urged calm and restraint, said a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council.

The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, previously denounced “irregular mobilizations of some units of the Bolivian Army” and called for respect for democracy, which generated fears of a coup d’état in the country, while television images showed the deployment of uniformed in front of the Government Palace in La Paz.

International reactions did not take long to emerge.

The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States condemned what happened in Bolivia and appealed for the Army to submit “to the legitimately elected civil power.”

Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the OAS, said from Asunción that “the international community, the OAS and the General Secretariat of the OAS will not tolerate any form of violation of the legitimate constitutional order in Bolivia, or anywhere else.”

For his part, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said: “I received a call from President Lucho Arce of Bolivia and spoke with former President Evo Morales… We are from Venezuela denouncing a coup against Bolivian democracy. At this moment, forces that have betrayed their oath of loyalty to the State have taken over the presidential palace in La Paz.”

The Chilean president, Gabriel Boric, also condemned the military action in a message on X and expressed his concern about the situation in Bolivia. “We strongly condemn the unacceptable action of force by a sector of that country’s army,” he said.

The Paraguayan president, Santiago Peña, also showed his support for the Bolivian government: “We make a strong call to respect democracy and the rule of law.”

“Colombia stands in solidarity with the brother people of Bolivia and its president Luis Arce, and demands that the institutional channels of dialogue and respect for human rights be reestablished,” said the Colombian Foreign Ministry, while President Gustavo Petro called on Bolivian people “to democratic resistance”, through your account on X.

Peru also joined and said that it “rejects any act that threatens the democratic and institutional order of that country” and “expresses its support for institutional efforts to preserve order and the rule of law in the brother country of Bolivia.”

The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry issued a statement regretting the situation in Bolivia and asked for respect for the constitutional order established in the Andean country. “We trust that there will be a peaceful solution to this serious situation,” he said. through your social media account.

The president of Mexico, Manuel López Obrador, also spoke out and stated that: “We express the strongest condemnation of the attempted coup d’état in Bolivia. Our total support and support for President Luis Alberto Arce Catacora, authentic democratic authority of that people and brother country”.

For its part, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights stated that it “condemns the military insubordination in Bolivia and calls for unrestricted respect for democratic institutions, the maintenance of constitutional order and the protection of #humanrights.

In accordance with the Inter-American Democratic Charter, it is essential that all institutions be subordinated to the legally constituted civil authority.”

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