Word: pereira
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Virginia Pereira Santa Ynez, Calif...
...disavowing the authority of interim President Lydia Gueiler. Twelve hours later, 20 armed rebels stormed the Government House in the capital of La Paz and arrested Gueiler, along with her Cabinet. Power was seized by a junta composed of Army General Luis Garcia Meza, Air Force General Waldo Bernal Pereira and Admiral Ramiro Terrazas. At least two people were killed and 120 wounded during the military takeover-Bolivia's fourth in the past two years, and the 189th coup in the country's 155 years of independence...