Word: banzer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officer, for Garcia Meza's post. But Garcia Meza, backed by the army's conservative senior officers, would not vacate his command. He refused to step down unless Gueiler replaced him with General Ruben Rocha Patino, a fellow right-winger with close ties to ex-Dictator Hugo Banzer Suarez...
...simply to catch a glimpse of the Secretary before he emerged to drive off to the OAS meeting. In Santa Cruz, a huge crowd mobbed his car when he drove to place a floral wreath at the monument of Bolivia's national hero, Ignacio Warnes. Bolivian President Hugo Banzer, in fact, paid Kissinger the ultimate tribute: prevented by protocol from greeting the Secretary on his arrival in the country, Banzer nonetheless donned civilian clothes, drove to the airport, and watched incognito as his famous visitor passed by in a motorcade to town...
...other less-developed Latin American countries to provide markets, sources of raw materials, and sub-spheres of political influence. Brazil was the only country to send troops to support U.S. marines in the Dominican Republic in 1965. Brazil gave aid and material support in 1971 to General Hugo Banzer's Bolivia. Brazil's interests in Bolivia include one of the largest iron-ore deposits in the world and natural gas and petroleum deposits. General Stroessner, recently elected president of Paraguay, signed a treaty in May 1973 with Brazil rather than a proposed contract with Argentina, for the rights to build...
...Soviet embassy had been allowed to grow indiscriminately during the left-wing regime of President Juan Jose Torres, who was overthrown last August in a coup led by his successor, Hugo Banzer Suarez. But not quite as indiscriminately, it seems, as the Bolivians thought. At week's end, the Soviets insisted that the embassy's total head count, including families, came to only 92. "A few Red ghosts will have to be invented," one Russian diplomat concluded, "if we are to comply with the government's request...
...Banzer's regime-backed by an odd marriage of left-and right-wing parties-is expected to reverse the anti-U.S. drift of the Torres government, which expelled the Peace Corps and nationalized several U.S. mining companies. Whether Banzer can achieve the elusive goal of political stability for Bolivia remains questionable...