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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....
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    overthrown by the Bolivian Armed Forces in coup by her cousin, General Luis García Meza Tejada in 1980. Despite being backed by both the Soviet Union and the...
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    disrupted on 17 July by the military coup led by General Luis García Meza Tejada. However, Meza was pressured to resign on 4 August 1981, resulting in General...
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  • overthrow of President Lidia Gueiler Tejada on July 17, 1980. The junta consisted of General Luis García Meza Tejada, General Waldo Bernal Pereira, Commander...
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  • (1979) Lidia Gueiler Tejada, Acting President (1979–1980) Junta of Commanders of the Armed Forces 1980, Members: Luis García Meza Tejada, Waldo Bernal Pereira...
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  • Lidia Gueiler Tejada (1921–2011), 56th President of Bolivia Luis García Meza Tejada (1929–2018), 57th President of Bolivia Raquel Tejada (1940–2023), American...
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  • a coup d'état overthrew President Lidia Gueiler Tejada, replaced by her cousin Luis García Meza Tejada. The event became known as the "Cocaine Coup" because...
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  • following as an opposition leader and he was killed during the Luis García Meza Tejada coup of 17 July 1980. His death left his Socialist Party-One –...
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  • Admiral in the Bolivian Navy. This junta was preceded by President Luis García Meza Tejada. This junta was dissolved with Celso Torrelio becoming de facto...
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    caretaker governments, including the notorious dictatorship of Luis García Meza Tejada. This period of political instability set the stage for the hyperinflation...
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  • applied to: 1980 Bolivian coup d'état of Luis García Meza Tejada 1978 Honduran coup d'état of Policarpo Paz García This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    reported to junta leader Leopoldo Galtieri. The unit took part in Luis García Meza Tejada's Cocaine Coup in Bolivia in 1980 and trained Contra units in Lepaterique...
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    America. In South America, he took part in the 'Cocaine Coup' of Luis García Meza Tejada, when a notoriously corrupt military regime forced its way to power...
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  • Larisa Bogoraz, Russian linguist and activist (d. 2004) 1929 – Luis García Meza Tejada, Bolivian general and politician, 68th President of Bolivia (d...
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    crimes committed in office. Bolivia’s Supreme Court sentenced Gen. Luis García Meza Tejada, the "cocaine dictator," to 30 years in jail without parole or...
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    seized power in Argentina and supported the 1980 "Cocaine Coup" of Luis García Meza Tejada in Bolivia, before training the Contras in Nicaragua where the...
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  • by Lidia Gueiler Tejada who served as interim Head of State from 16 November 1979, until her overthrow by the Luis García Meza Tejada coup of 17 July 1980...
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    terrorist who had ties with Operation Condor and the regime of Luis García Meza Tejada in Bolivia Franco Di Bella [it], director of Corriere della Sera...
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  • on trial in the "Trials of Responsibility", including dictator Luis García Meza Tejada. The Trials of Responsibility lasted from 1984 to 1993, during...
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  • March 1981. The brainchild of Bolivian President/Dictator General Luis García Meza Tejada, it was formed in response to the temporary exclusion of Bolivia...
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    José Luis Tejada Sorzano (12 January 1882 – 4 October 1938) was a Bolivian economist, lawyer, and politician who served as the 34th president of Bolivia...
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    Delle Chiaie and major drug lords mount the bloody Cocaine Coup of Luis García Meza Tejada in neighboring Bolivia. They hired 70 foreign agents for this task...
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    Manuel Peña Khanata Lidia Gueiler Tejada Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas Luis Arce Gómez Luis Cristaldo Luis García Meza Tejada Luis Ramallo Mamerto Urriolagoitia...
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  • 02.78% vote. On 17 July 1980 Lidia Gueiler Tejada was overthrown in turn by General Luis García Meza Tejada. The Authentic Revolutionary Party has had...
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    Argentina in 1976, and then supported the 1980 "Cocaine Coup" of Luis García Meza Tejada in Bolivia, before training the "Contras" in Nicaragua, where the...
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    revolt against the regime of Luis García Meza Tejada, while failing to overthrow the regime, led to the resignation of Garcia Meza and his replacement by Celso...
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    1980-81, when Luis García Meza Tejada was dictator, several thousand civil servants were prosecuted for embezzlement; in 1986, García Meza was charged with...
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    dictatorship of President Luis García Meza Tejada. Garrett returned to Bolivia in 1982 following the end of the García Meza dictatorship and the restoration...
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    of Luis García Meza, during which time many documents were burned, causing her to lose a year of studies. Upon the university's reopening, Tejada returned...
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