Hugo Banzer
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Hugo Banzer Suárez was a Bolivian politician and military officer who served as the 51st president of Bolivia. He held the Bolivian presidency twice: from 1971 to 1978 as a military dictator, and then
Banzer in 1972
Banzer in 1971
Banzer (left) shaking hands with Hernán Terrazas, 1997
Juan José Torres
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Juan José Torres González was a Bolivian socialist politician and military leader who served as the 50th president of Bolivia from 1970 to 1971, when he was ousted in a coup that resulted in the dicta
Hugo Banzer
…dictator, and then again from 1997 to 2001, as a democratically elected president. Banzer rose to power via a coup d'état against socialist president Juan José Torres and repressed labor leaders, clergymen, indigenous people, and students during his 1971–1978 dictatorship. Several thousand Bolivians were either forced…
General Torres with a group of friends, including then Colonel Hernán Terrazas Céspedes in the back.
Mausoleum with Presidents Torres, Villarroel, and Busch at Plaza Villaroel in the Monument to the National Revolution in La Paz.