BUENOS AIRES -- Hugo Banzer, 75, the former dictator of Bolivia who later won the nation's top office at the ballot box, died May 5 at his home in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, after a heart attack. He had ...

Hugo Banzer Suarez, the general who ruled Bolivia as an ironfisted dictator in the 1970s and returned from exile and ignominy a generation later to become the democratically elected president, died of ...

BOLIVIA: The former Bolivian dictator, Mr Hugo Banzer, died early yesterday at his home in the eastern city of Santa Cruz surrounded… BOLIVIA: The former Bolivian dictator, Mr Hugo Banzer, died early ...

GENERAL HUGO BANZER SUÁREZ, who has died at Santa Cruz, aged 75, was that unusual phenomenon, a South American military dictator who reinvented himself as a democratic politician, founded his own ...

Re Dictator Turned Democrat (obituary -- May 6): The Associated Press article left out some important parts of Hugo Banzer's darker past. These include his association with Nazi war criminal Klaus ...

Bolivia's president Hugo Banzer Suárez declared his intention to resign from his hospital bed in Washington Friday and will hand over power to his vice president Jorge Quiroga Ramirez next month. The ...