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	Hugo Banzer Suárez Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Hugo Banzer Suárez (born 1926), Bolivian president from 1971 to 1979, presided over the nation's largest economic boom.
		Not one to sulk in Santa Cruz, Banzer let himself be wooed by the increasingly conservative Paz--who needed ADN votes in Congress--and in October 1985 he signed the ADN/MNR "Pact for Democracy," which assured Paz control of Congress and Banzer a probable 1990 presidency.
		Controversial Banzer, who held continuous power in Bolivia longer than anyone else in the 20th century, was denounced for his harsh rule yet praised for continuing and accelerating distribution of land to the peasants.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/hugo-banzer-suarez (1355 words)

	Hugo Banzer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hugo Banzer Suárez (May 10, 1926 – May 5, 2002) was a Bolivian soldier, politician and dictator.
		Banzer attended military schools in Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil and United States, included the Armored Cavalry School at Fort Hood, Texas, and the renowned School of the Americas at the Panama Canal, where was trained in Counter-insurgency tactics.
		Prior to his election in 1997, Banzer ran unsuccessfully in the presidential elections held in 1979, 1980, 1985, 1989 and 1993.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hugo_Banzer (481 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hugo Banzer
		Hugo Banzer Suarez was ex-dictator en ex-president van Bolivia.
		Hugo Banzer werd geboren in in Conceptión in de provincie Nuflode Chávez in het departement Santa Cruz.
		Banzer overleed op 5 mei 2002 aan een nachtelijke hartaanval in zijn huis in Santa Cruz.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hugo-Banzer (1901 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		Banzer was born in Concepcion, in Bolivia's eastern province of Santa Cruz, the grandson of German immigrants and the son of an officer.
		Banzer, meanwhile, was training at the Pentagon's School of the Americas in Panama and the Armoured Cavalry School at Fort Hood, Texas.
		Banzer survived the disintegration of the Garcia Meza "narcocracy" and the indictment of Barbie, Suarez and Garcia Meza.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4407884,00.html (670 words)

	Hugo Banzer Suarez
		Hugo Banzer Suárez (May 10, 1926 - May 5, 2002) was a Bolivian soldier and politician, and president from 1971 - 1978 and from 1997 - 2001.
		Banzer attended military schools during his early years.
		In 1997, Banzer was elected back into office for five years.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hu/Hugo_Banzer_Suarez.html (149 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hugo Banzer SuÃ¡rez (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hugo Banzer Suárez (May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years).
		Alfredo Ovando Candía, but Banzer's The term triumvirate (Latin for rule by three men) or troika in Russian, is commonly used to describe an alliance between three equally powerful political or military leaders.
		Banzer died in 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hugo-Banzer-Su%E1rez (3641 words)

	[Deathwatch] Hugo Banzer, Former Bolivia President, 75
		Banzer was born May 10, 1926, in Concepcion, a sleepy ranching town in Santa Cruz province.
		In 1964, Banzer was appointed minister of education and in 1969, he became director of the military academy, a prestigious post he held until dismissed in January 1971 by leftist president, Gen. Juan Jose Torres.
		Banzer was overthrown in 1978, but he helped establish his democratic credentials in 1985 when he placed first in a presidential election but with less than 50 percent.
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	Hugo Banzer: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hugo Banzer Suárez (May 10, 1926 – May 5, 2002) was a Bolivian (A native or inhabitant of Bolivia) soldier, polititian and statesman.
		In 1997, Banzer was elected back into office for five years, representing the ADN (additional info and facts about ADN) party (Acción Democrática Nacionalista).
		Note: In accordance with the rules of Spanish (The Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain) orthography (A method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols), Banzer should be spelled Bánzer.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hu/hugo_banzer.htm (438 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Hugo Banzer
		The soldier and politician Hugo Banzer was president of Bolivia from 1971 to 1978.
		He had gained power through a coup d'état, but on June 1, 1997, he regained power in very different political circumstances when he won the presidential elections as leader of the conservative Acción Democrática Nacionalista (ADN, the letters of which appear next to Banzer in the photo).
		Banzer was sworn in as president in August 1997.
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	Ex-dictator leading Bolivian race (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The diminutive Banzer convinced many voters that he is now the "general of democracy" and no longer the man who governed by imprisonment, torture, censorship and forced exile of political opponents.
		Others scrawled "dictator" across Banzer campaign posters and ran TV spots rehashing his dismal human rights record -- some 104 people were assassinated or vanished during his rule, and 429 died in confrontations with the army or police, according to the Bolivia-based Permanent Assembly for Human Rights.
		Banzer, Duran and Paz Zamora, the three front runners in all polls leading up to the election, were all accused of cultivating ties with drug-smuggling gangs.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/97/06/03/bolivia-election.2-0.html (717 words)

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		Dictator-turned-democrat Hugo Banzer was buried Monday at a funeral attended by military brass and politicians who praised him as a humble man with an immense love for Bolivia.
		Banzer, a cigarette smoker, was diagnosed in July by doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington with lung cancer that had spread to his liver.
		Banzer's cancer had forced him to resign the presidency on Aug. 6, 2001, a year before his term was due to end.
	www.tobacco.org /newsfeed/country/bolivia.rss (802 words)

	Comments of
		General Hugo Banzer, one of the dictators often reviled by critics of USARSA, was a vital player in the return to democracy of Bolivia.
		Banzer’s rule from 1971-78 was far more benign than most dictators, and for most of his reign he had civilian political party support.
		Banzer played crucial roles in starting the return to democracy in 1978, in accepting Siles in 1982, and in ensuring the continuance of democracy in the elections of 1985 and 1989.
	carlisle-www.army.mil /USAMHI/usarsa/RELEASES/COMMENTS/ambcorr.html (857 words)

	USATODAY.com - Bolivian president's health forces his resignation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Banzer, whose term was to have ended on Aug. 6, 2002, is not held in particularly high regard by many in Bolivia, and his popularity ratings have remained low ever since he assumed office four years ago.
		Banzer hails from Concepcion, a sleepy ranching town in Bolivia's eastern department of Santa Cruz.
		Banzer's lengthy — oft-criticized as submissive — relationship with the United States began when he was sent to the U.S. Army's School of the Americas in Panama.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2001/07/27/bolivia.htm (581 words)

	Bolivia's president Banzer considers Cuba visit / Reuters - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
		Banzer, a retired general, first ruled Bolivia as a dictator for seven years after leading a bloody coup in 1971.
		Banzer was elected as president last year after several failed attempts to regain the presidency at the ballot box.
		Banzer declined to give an opinion on the arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in Britain for alleged responsibility for massive human rights abuses.
	www.cubanet.org /CNews/y99/feb99/01e2.htm (292 words)

	Narco News Reports on War Crimes Case Against Hugo Banzer
		General Banzer, a military official who governed as dictator between 1971 and 1978, and who returned to power by democratic means in 1997, resigned on August 6th from the Bolivian presidency due to advanced lung cancer.
		Banzer, de facto president of Bolivia from 1971-1978, allegedly repressed political opponents under the so-called Condor Plan - the coordinated actions of the military governments of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay to repress suspected leftists.
		Banzer, elected president in 1997 following his de facto rule, resigned in August with lung and liver cancer for which he is being treated at a Washington military hospital.
	www.narconews.com /warcriminalbanzer1.html (730 words)

	friendly dictators
		The coup to overthrow Torres, led by US-trained officer and Gulf Oil beneficiary Hugo Banzer, had direct support from Washington.
		When Banzer's forces had a breakdown in radio communications, US Air Force radio was placed at their disposal.
		Tens-of-thousands of white South Africans were enticed to immigrate with promises of the land stolen from the Indians, with a goal of creating a white Bolivia.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html (9246 words)

	americas.org - Quiroga Takes Over for Banzer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On August 6, Hugo Banzer Suárez stepped down as president of Bolivia in a ceremony before the nation’s congress in the city of Sucre.
		Banzer has terminal cancer and has been receiving treatment in the U.S.; he flew to Bolivia on August 5 just to resign, and returned to the U.S. on August 8 to continue his treatment.
		The color posters featured a picture of Banzer with the slogan: “General: those who died and disappeared under your governments are waiting for you.” The students were detained for nine hours; they were finally released on the insistence of the Permanent Assembly of Human Rights of Bolivia (APDHB).
	www.americas.org /item_7089 (461 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Former Bolivian president dies
		Hugo Banzer, who ruled Bolivia first as a military leader and again as an elected president, has died at the age of 75.
		Elected in 1997, Mr Banzer's time as president was marked by efforts to wipe out the coca crop - the leaf used to make the drug cocaine.
		Mr Banzer first came to power in a 1971 coup that began a seven-year military regime.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1969327.stm (313 words)

	Americas: Country Report
		While President Hugo Banzer's government used the state intelligence apparatus to intimidate journalists, the Bolivian press continued to report aggressively on a number of public scandals.
		Banzer, a general who led a military government from 1971 to 1978, publicly embraced press freedom after he was democratically elected president in 1997.
		Banzer publicly apologized for a July 21 police assault on journalists and photographers covering a protest march held by the Bolivian Labor Union (COB) in La Paz.
	www.cpj.org /attacks99/americas99/Bolivia.html (820 words)

	The Consortium
		The 71-year-old Banzer, a long-time U.S. favorite because of his anti-communism, forged the coalition that gave him the presidency after his Accion Democratica Nacionalista party won 22 percent of the vote in the June elections.
		But Banzer won a special note in the annals of counter-insurgency for devising a strategy for combatting so-called "liberation theology," a religious doctrine which promotes social justice for the poor.
		In his new-found populism, Banzer seems to be playing to the anti-American sentiments of Bolivia's 300,000 coca growers, an important political force in a poverty-stricken country of eight million.
	www.consortiumnews.com /archive/story40.html (1878 words)

	‘If the new President Jorge Quiroga fails to implement changes, people will lose faith in him’
		President Hugo Banzer Suárez is forced to leave office due to health reasons and will be replaced by former Vice-president and current Head of State on duty Jorge Quiroga Ramírez next August 6, exactly a year ahead of schedule.
		Former President Sánchez de Losada stated that despite he sympathizes with the personal problem of Hugo Banzer, he understands the change but the MNR claimed they would not press for the resignation under these circumstances.
		Rumors had it that while Banzer was in hospital, as soon as his decision to resign was known, political negotiations were conducted to remove some leaders of the ruling Acción Democrática Nacionalista (ADN).
	www.nuevamayoria.com /english/entrevistas/notas/imesa300701.htm (896 words)

	USATODAY.com - Banzer replacement has aspired to top job (Site not responding. Last check: )
		President Hugo Banzer, 75, said Friday he is too ill from cancer to continue leading Bolivia.
		Banzer, a dictator from 1971-78, was democratically elected in 1997 with Quiroga his running mate.
		Before Banzer left for Washington, Quiroga had planned to join an expedition that was to play a soccer match on the summit of Sajama, Bolivia's highest mountain at about 21,500 feet.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2001/07/27/bolivia_no2.htm (508 words)

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		Banzer was forced to resign when an all-military government took control and imposed martial law.
		Banzer launched an aggressive program against the farming of coca—a crop from which cocaine is produced.
		Banzer’s health problems forced him to quit before the end of his term, and Jorge Quiroga became Bolivia’s interim president before the June 2002 elections.
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	Timeline Bolivia
		Banzer followed with a coup attempt and was exiled to Argentina.
		Hugo Banzer said his government would continue to wipe out cocaine trafficking during his 5-year term.
		Banzer (75) was reported to be hospitalized in Washington DC with cancer in his lung and liver.
	timelines.ws /countries/BOLIVIA.HTML (4168 words)

	Bolivia's War Over Water (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bolivia's President, Hugo Banzer, who ruled the country as a dictator from 1971-78 (a neighbor and close ally of Augusto Pinochet), responded by bringing in more than 1,000 police and soldiers from outside the city and imposing a military takeover of Cochabamba's center.
		It came just as it appeared that President Hugo Banzer Suárez was preparing to declare martial law, possibly triggering fighting in the streets between riot police and the thousands of angry protesters who seized control of the city's central plaza.
		Bolivia's President, Hugo Banzer (who ruled the country as dictator for most of the 1970s) declared a "state of emergency", pulled the plug on radio stations, sent soldiers into the street (killing a 17 year old boy and injuring hundreds more) and tried to blame the water protests on "narcotraffickers".
	democracyctr.org /waterwar (11551 words)

	Bolivia - Countrywatch.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		President Banzer willingly conceded to the people's demands for two main reasons: the police unit, specially trained to deal with riots, was on strike, and as a former military dictator, Banzer wanted to peacefully resolve the situation to avoid both domestic and international criticism.
		The demonstrators finally dispersed after the Banzer administration agreed to many of the their demands, including the amendment of water privatization and land-registration laws, but ten people died during the protests.
		Banzer was 75 years old at the time of his resignation.
	aol.countrywatch.com /aol_print.asp?vCOUNTRY=21&SECTION=SUB&TOPIC=POPCO&TYPE=TEXT (5483 words)

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