Word: banzer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place as head of a new military regime was Colonel Hugo Banzer Suárez, 45, a career army officer who promptly named his regime "the government of the Nationalist Popular Front." He declared that his government would not reverse the 1969 nationalization of the Gulf Oil Co.-for which Bolivia has agreed to pay $78 million compensation. Banzer also affirmed that his regime would continue "traditionally friendly" relations with the U.S.-as well as with the Soviet Union...
...Lamppost. The slight, urbane colonel, who comes from a family of landowners, trained at U.S. Army schools in Panama and the U.S. before serving as Bolivian military attaché in Washington, D.C. He has a reputation for being cool under fire. One day in 1966, when Banzer was Minister of Education in the late René Barrientos' government, an angry crowd of teachers demonstrated outside his office. "String up Banzer!" they shouted. Suddenly Banzer appeared in their midst. "I will be waiting near the lamppost to see who is the brave one who is going to hang...