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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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    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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    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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  • Luis García or Luis Garcia may refer to: Luis Fernando García (born 1974), Guatemalan race walker Luis García (Cuban racewalker), Cuban athlete and medalist...
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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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    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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  • 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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