seems like a sad reality:
What’s with the back-row troops carrying boxes?
unfortunately webcams there are already off-line
Doesn’t indignation usually work well at a time like this?
It works as well as craven surrender, but it looks better.
An hour later, Arce announced new heads of the army, navy and air force amid the roar of supporters. Video showed troops setting up blockades outside the government palace. He said the troops who rose against him were “staining the uniform” of the military and vowed that democracy would be respected.
“I order all that are mobilized to return to their units, said the newly named army chief José Wilson Sánchez. “No one wants the images we’re seeing in the streets.” Soon after troops and armored vehicles start pulling back from Bolivia’s presidential palace.
Apparently there have been massive economic problems:
Wednesday’s brief and still poorly explained mutiny, which lasted only around 3 hours and reportedly saw 12 people injured, was the latest convulsion to grip a notoriously volatile nation that has witnessed 190 revolutions and coups since it gained independence in 1825.