 to gain public support for the President Luis Arce. Well then, seconds before his arrest, General Zuniga told reporters he'd been told to stage the coup by the President himself. Mariela McDonnell-Alvarez is Bolivia's ambassador in Geneva, and she spoke to the BBC's Lucy Hawkins, who asked her if the coup was orchestrated. We have to have very clear that this was an attempt, a coup d'etat, orchestrated by the General Zuniga,