Reuters. Calm seemed to have returned to Bolivia's capital, La Paz on Thursday (June 27) in the wake of an attempted coup.
Bolivian armed forces pulled back from the presidential palace in La Paza on Wednesday evening (June 26) and a general was arrested after President Luis Arce slammed a "coup" attempt against the government and called for international support.
On Wednesday, military units led by General Juan Jose Zuniga, recently stripped of his military command, had gathered in the central Plaza Murillo square, home to the presidential palace and Congress.
Inside the presidential palace, Arce swore in José Wilson Sanchez as the military commander, Zuniga's former role. He called for calm and order to be restored.
The United States said it was closely monitoring the situation and urged calm and restraint.
