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    Hugo Banzer Suárez (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈuɣo ˈβanseɾ ˈswaɾes]; 10 May 1926 – 5 May 2002) was a Bolivian politician and military officer who served...
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    until Hugo Banzer led a CIA-supported coup d'état in 1971, replacing the socialist government of Juan José Torres with a military dictatorship. Banzer's regime...
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    1971, when he was ousted in a coup that resulted in the dictatorship of Hugo Banzer. He was popularly known as "J.J." (Jota-Jota). Juan José Torres was murdered...
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  • General Hugo Banzer Suárez took the Presidency of Bolivia on 21 August 1971 and formed his cabinet. (*) 03.10.1972 – 14.02.1974 Agriculture mil – military...
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    Juan José Torres, who in turn was overthrown in August 1971 by Hugo Banzer Suárez. Banzer ruled for seven years, initially from 1971 to 1974 with the support...
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    military officer who rose to the rank of general during the dictatorship of Hugo Banzer (1971–78). García Meza graduated from the military academy in 1952, and...
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  • subsequently appointed Air Force Commander. He served in the dictatorship of Hugo Banzer (1971–1978) as Minister of Industry and, in the late 1970s, as Minister...
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    Jorge Quiroga (category Banzer administration cabinet members)
    served as the 36th vice president of Bolivia from 1997 to 2001 under Hugo Banzer and as minister of finance under Jaime Paz Zamora in 1992. During the...
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    March 23, 1979 by the military dictator Hugo Banzer after he stepped down from power. As leader of the ADN, Banzer ran in the 1979, 1980, 1985, 1989, 1993...
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    the National Congress was required to elect a president on 4 August. Hugo Banzer of Nationalist Democratic Action (ADN) was subsequently elected. Whilst...
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    Nationalist Democratic Action (ADN) of General (and former dictator) Hugo Banzer Suárez won a plurality of the popular vote, followed by former President...
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    dictatorship. The US government supported the 1971 coup led by General Hugo Banzer that toppled President Juan José Torres of Bolivia. Torres had displeased...
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    backed in the runoff by the second-placed, former military dictator Hugo Banzer of the ADN, who had won 25.2% of the popular vote. Sánchez de Lozada...
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  • Ezeiza. Delle Chiaie also worked with the Chilean DINA in Chile, and for Hugo Banzer, a Bolivian dictator. According to a 1983 article in The New York Times...
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    Spanish). Retrieved 19 October 2021. On Sunday, 22 August, at 4:15 p.m., Hugo Banzer is sworn-in as president in the corridors of the Government Palace. "Bolivia[n]...
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  • its weak bargaining position, the Bolivian government under President Hugo Banzer agreed to the terms of its sole bidder Aguas del Tunari and signed a...
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    persuasion, Torres was overthrown in a bloody coup d'état led by then-Colonel Hugo Banzer with the MNR's full support. This too was a move that would cost Paz...
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    Pereda (1978) and, especially, toward the ADN party of former dictator Hugo Banzer. Founded in Chile by a group of exiles (chief among whom was Óscar Únzaga...
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    "Megacoalition" that supported the presidency of Hugo Banzer from 1997 to 2001. The coalition also included Banzer's Nationalist Democratic Action (ADN), the...
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    sheltered many Nazi fugitives as Alfredo Stroessner did in Paraguay and as Hugo Banzer did in Bolivia; he was sometimes known as the "Hitler of the Pampa" among...
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    many years a trusted member of the cabinet of the military dictator Hugo Banzer. On November 1, 1979, Colonel Natusch executed a bloody coup d'état against...
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    relations with high-ranking Bolivian officials, including Bolivian dictators Hugo Banzer and Luis García Meza. "Altmann" was known for his German nationalist...
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  • https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hugo-Banzer-Suarez https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2002/05/12/hugo-banzer-bolivian-president/17613c63-cc4...
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    Brazilian military overthrew president João Goulart in 1964. General Hugo Banzer took power in Bolivia in 1971 through a series of coups. A civic-military...
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    National Congress was required to elect a President on 4 August. Although Hugo Banzer of Nationalist Democratic Action (ADN) received the most public votes...
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    troops regained the palace and ended the coup attempt. Bolivia: General Hugo Banzer overthrew President Juan José Torres and established a military dictatorship...
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    Nationalist Democratic Action (ADN) of ex-president Hugo Banzer formed the Patriotic Accord (AP) alliance. Hugo Banzer, in his fifth bid for the presidency, was...
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    advanced by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela. In January 2008, President Hugo Chávez set up a commission to investigate his claim that Bolívar had been...
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  • Supreme Decree 11947 was a decree of the military government of Hugo Banzer (1971-1978). Issued on November 9, 1974, it declared the recess of political...
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  • the 1997 elections, Gen. Hugo Banzer, leader of the ADN, won 22% of the vote, while the MNR candidate won 18%. Gen. Banzer formed a coalition of the...
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