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 again from 1997 to 2001, as a democratically elected president.
Official photograph by Freddy Alborta, 1971
Official photograph, 1971
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. It is bordered by Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay to the southeast, Argentina to the south, Chile to the southwest, and Peru to the west. The seat of government and administrative capital is La Paz, which contains the executive, legislative, and electoral branches of government, while the constitutional capital is Sucre, the seat of the judiciary. The largest city and principal industrial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the Llanos Orientales, a mostly flat region in the east of the country.
The colonial Mint of Potosí
Metropolitan Cathedral of Sucre in Sucre, a UNESCO World Heritage city.
Historic headquarters of Banco Nacional de Bolivia in Sucre
In 1971 Hugo Banzer Suárez, supported by the CIA, forcibly ousted President Torres in a coup.
