The coup attempt was led by Lieutenant Celso Campos Pinto, Colonel Rolando Saravia, German Linares, Carlos Barriga, and Julio Vargas.

The Bolivian president, kidnapped at dawn from his bedroom in the presidential palace, was forced into a vehicle and taken to a warehouse in a La Paz suburb, where he was held at gunpoint for nine to ten hours.

[2] The coup leaders included Lieutenant Celsio Campos Pinto, Colonel Rolando Saravia, and three high-ranking UMOPAR officers – German Linares, Carlos Barriga, and Julio Vargas.

[4] When President Siles returned from his captivity, he was cheered and embraced by aides, relatives, cabinet members, senior military officials, and labor union leaders.

[1] The Leopards, for their part in the attempted coup, were confined to their barracks,[2] and around 50 people were arrested, including members of past military cabinets and the right-wing Nationalist Democratic Action party.