Conflict between junta assistant secretary General Saprang Kalayamitr and First Army Region commander and Lt General Prayuth Chan-ocha were cited as a possible causes of the bombings and the coup rumors.
Some time after the publication of Mama Lola, Alourdes "made Ocha" (initiating herself into the Santeria religion) (400).
Santería, a syncretic religion also called La Regla de Ocha or La Regla Lucumi