OUSTED Bolivian president Evo Morales slammed the coup administration for its arrest of two former government ministers on Saturday.

Former mining minister Cesar Navarro and former agriculture minister Pedro Dorado were held as they were about to board a plane at El Alto airport, having been given a guarantee that they could leave Bolivia as political exiles.

Mr Navarro was released after a few hours and alleged that he had been beaten by paramilitary forces associated with the US-backed interim government of Jeanine Anez.