What is Hugo Banzer?
'''Hugo Banzer Suárez''' (May 10, 1926 &ndash; May 5, 2002) was a [[Bolivia]]n politician, military general, and [[dictator]]. He was the [[President of Bolivia]]. He held the Bolivian presidency twice: from 1971 to 1978, as a dictator; and then again from 1997 to his resignation in 2001.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cidob.org/biografias_lideres_politicos/america_del_sur/bolivia/hugo_banzer_suarez|title=CIDOB|website=CIDOB}}</ref> Banzer was born in [[Concepción, Santa Cruz]]. He studied at the [[School of the Americas]]. Banzer died on May 5, 2002 in [[Santa Cruz, Bolivia]] from [[lung cancer]], aged 75. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline}} * [http://www.aportescriticos.com.ar/es/chroniques.php?id_cv=1 On the crisis of December 1977] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080521195948/http://www.aportescriticos.com.ar/es/chroniques.php?id_cv=1 |date=2008-05-21 }} (video) {{DEFAULTSORT:Banzer, Hugo}} [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:2002 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from lung cancer]] [[Category:Presidents of Bolivia]] [[Category:Former dictators]] {{bio-stub}}