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| | Hugo Banzer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Served as President of the Republic twice: from August 22, 1971 to July 21, 1978, as a de facto incumbent; and again from August 6, 1997 to August 7, 2001, but now as a Constitutional incumbent. |
 | | Descendant of German immigrants, Banzer attended military schools in Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil and United States, included the Armoured Cavalry School at Fort Hood, Texas, and the renowned School of the Americas at the Panama Canal, where was trained in tactics. |
 | | In October 1970 he took part in a rightist coup d'état that deposed the then military president, Gen. Alfredo Ovando Candía, but Banzer's triumvirate was inmediately overthrown by a countercoup staged by Gen., a leftist official. |
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