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    Luis García Meza Tejada (8 August 1929 – 29 April 2018) was a Bolivian general who served as the de facto 57th president of Bolivia from 1980 to 1981....
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  • The High Command of the Military of Bolivia entrusted General Luis García Meza Tejada with the Presidency on 18 July 1980, and he formed his cabinet. mil...
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  • the "Cocaine Coup") that brought to power the General Luis García Meza. Arce served as García Meza's Minister of the Interior. Arce was born in 1938 in Sucre...
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  • Luis García or Luis Garcia may refer to: Luis García (basketball) (born 1941), Uruguayan basketball player Luis García (fencer) (born 1934), Venezuelan...
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    dictator Luis García Meza's Minister of Interior after the departure, forced by Washington, of the equally-infamous Colonel Luis Arce. The García Meza regime...
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    suspected of having had a role in the Bolivian coup d'état orchestrated by Luis García Meza in 1980. After the fall of the dictatorship, Barbie lost the protection...
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    overthrown in a bloody right-wing military coup by her cousin, General Luis García Meza Tejada. Gueiler then left the country, and lived in France until the...
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  • Lidia Gueiler Tejada on July 17, 1980. The junta consisted of General Luis García Meza Tejada, General Waldo Bernal Pereira, Commander of the Bolivian Air...
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    term was first used to describe Bolivia following the 1980 coup of Luis García Meza which was seen to be primarily financed with the help of narcotics...
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  • R. Vidyasagar Rao, Indian bureaucrat and activist (b. 1939) 2018 – Luis García Meza, Bolivian general, 57th President of Bolivia (b. 1929) 2018 – Michael...
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    There are seven living former presidents. The most recent to die was Luis García Meza, on 29 April 2018. President of Bolivia Vice President of Bolivia Constitution...
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  • – The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis García Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating...
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  • coup installed a dictatorship in 1980, in which Luis García Meza would be president and Suárez's cousin Luis Arce Gómez was Minister of the Interior, and...
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    d'état, counter-coups, and caretaker governments. In 1980, General Luis García Meza Tejada carried out a ruthless and violent coup d'état that did not...
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    disrupted on 17 July by the military coup led by General Luis García Meza Tejada. However, Meza was pressured to resign on 4 August 1981, resulting in General...
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    record of 215–15. Garcia turned professional at age 17 on June 9, 2016. In his first professional bout, he fought against Edgar Meza in Tijuana, winning...
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    from Diego García-Sayán, United Nations special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers. Between 15 and 22 February, García-Sayán conducted...
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    installed a reactionary (and cocaine-tainted) dictatorship led by General Luis García Meza. With the military's reputation badly damaged by the excesses of the...
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  • Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison". AP NEWS. Roberts, Sam (May 2, 2018). "Luis García Meza, Bolivian Dictator Jailed for Genocide, Dies at 88 (Published 2018)"...
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    reported to junta leader Leopoldo Galtieri. The unit took part in Luis García Meza Tejada's Cocaine Coup in Bolivia in 1980 and trained Contra units in...
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    installed a reactionary (and cocaine-tainted) dictatorship of General Luis García Meza. Siles escaped to exile in Peru by crossing Lake Titicaca on a boat...
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    disrupted on July 17, 1980, by the violent military coup of General Luis García Meza, cousin of the deposed president Gueiler, who fled the country. Reportedly...
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    of Luis García Meza. Respected for his steadfast stance in defense of democratic principles, Siles died on 19 October 2005 in La Paz. "Obituary: Luis Adolfo...
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    secured a place in a diplomatic mission to Great Britain with the lawyer Luis López Méndez [es] and Andrés Bello by paying for the mission. The trio boarded...
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  • March 1981. The brainchild of Bolivian President/Dictator General Luis García Meza Tejada, it was formed in response to the temporary exclusion of Bolivia...
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    second-place candidate), the top two candidates advance to a runoff election. Luis Arce is the 67th and incumbent president of Bolivia. He assumed office on...
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    in joining the union by wider events, in 1980 the far-right General Luis García Meza had seized power in a military coup, banning other political parties...
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    Colonel Luis Arce, who would surface as Minister of Interior in the upcoming (and quite ruthless) military dictatorship of Luis Garcia Meza. No one doubts...
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  • applied to: 1980 Bolivian coup d'état of Luis García Meza Tejada 1978 Honduran coup d'état of Policarpo Paz García This disambiguation page lists articles...
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  • -cc40-4ef4-bdee-3552a85874c6/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Luis-Garcia-Meza https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-03-21-mn-36804-story.html...
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