Bolivian army leader arrested after apparent coup attempt. Updated on: June 27, 2024 / 4:00 AM EDT / AP 6/26: CBS News 24/7 Episode 1 . 6/26: CBS News 24/7 Episode 1 44:10.

Bolivia has arrested more than a dozen high-ranking military and intelligence officials following a failed attempt to unseat the country’s president in a coup allegedly led by its former army chief.

Bolivian soldiers led by the commanding general Bolivian Army rammed a tank into the doors of the Bolivian presidential palace on Wednesday morning, shattering them open.“Surely soon there will be a ...

Rumblings mount over a possible coup in Bolivia, as President Luis Arce warns of “irregular” military movement in the capital, La Paz. The Bolivian leader took to X on Wednesday to denounce the ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (March 13, 2012) -- In 1997, eight Special Forces Soldiers traveled to Bolivia to train and advise a battalion of Bolivian Army rangers. Beyond running the battalion's light ...

Demonstrators face members of Bolivia’s military in La Paz, Bolivia, on June 26, 2024, as President Luis Arce “denounced the irregular mobilization” of some units of the country’s army ...

Gary Prado Salmón, the Bolivian army special forces officer who captured revolutionary guerrilla fighter Ernesto “Che” Guevara in the Bolivian jungle in 1967, died May 6 at a hospital in the ...

Bolivian President Luis Arce denounced the "irregular mobilization" of some army units in the capital and demanded the troops demobilize.

Bolivia's general commander of the Army, Juan José Zúñiga, sits inside an armored vehicle parked on Plaza Murillo, outside government palace in La Paz, Bolivia, Wednesday, June 26, 2024.

Bolivian army officials say they have started training civilians to use firearms to defend the country, mirroring a similar program by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has built a militia ...

Bolivia has arrested more than a dozen high-ranking military and intelligence officials following a failed attempt to unseat the country’s president in a coup allegedly led by its former army chief.