text:  Cornell professor Gustavo Flores Macias told the AP that Arce's move was a courageous one. I mean, Latin America is full of examples in which presidents have been killed, shot by the armed forces, you know, in Chile, elsewhere, where we don't have sort of this type of back and forth and in which the military ends up sort of stepping back. The short-lived rebellion followed months of mounting tensions between Arce and his one-time ally, former president Evo Morales. I'm Karen Chamas.