Chávez, Dunn, Coca: Outraged | Indignados

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VALDA HAS ALREADY BEEN ARRESTED

Analysts alarmed and denounce persecution following government documentary linking them to Zúñiga’s attempted uprising

Chávez, Dunn, and Coca were mentioned in the documentary.

Well-known analysts critical of the government expressed alarm this Friday over what they claim is a political persecution offensive by the government, which, through a documentary, links them as members of an alleged cabinet of former General Juan José Zúñiga during his 2024 uprising.

The documentary presented a list of possible civilian ministers who had allegedly been proposed to Zúñiga to form a government. Well-known names appeared, such as economic analyst Gonzalo Chávez, along with Paul Coca, Joshua Bellot, and current presidential pre-candidate Jaime Dunn.

Suspicions intensified after the arrest of attorney Jorge Valda, who also appeared in that supposed cabinet for Zúñiga.

Gonzalo Chávez expressed his outrage: “Scoundrels!!” he wrote on his Facebook account, adding: “I categorically and indignantly reject the government’s attempt to link me, through a documentary full of inaccuracies and bad faith, to a supposed ‘cabinet’ of what they call a ‘failed coup d’état.’”

Chávez called it a “crude slander” and an attempt to “manipulate public opinion with political fiction, resorting to a narrative that lacks evidence, substance, and respect for the intelligence of citizens.”

He defended his history of democratic debate and announced he will not remain silent, although he expressed concern that the country is heading toward “a dangerous drift toward political persecution and the criminalization of dissent.”

Analyst Paul Coca warned that he could be arrested but called on people to keep fighting for freedom. “None of us mentioned have anything to do with Zúñiga’s supposed coup d’état. We know how that was and what it was for,” he said in a video.

For his part, Jaime Dunn told Unitel that this is an act of intimidation, where the government seeks to fabricate evidence to carry out political persecution in the style of the so-called terrorism case in Santa Cruz.

“The Ministry of Government has become a repressive intelligence structure, not serving the law, much less the people. It is an exclusive tool of the ruling elite. It acts as a political police, fabricating cases, planting false evidence,” he stated, while denying that he even knows Zúñiga.

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