After seven years as Bolivia's de facto president-cum-dictator Hugo Banzer, who has died of a heart attack aged 75, formed his own party in the late 1970s. He returned to the presidency via the ballot ...

President Hugo Banzer, who has been battling cancer, will resign Aug. 6 because of his health problems, the country's information minister said Friday. Vice President Jorge Quiroga, 41, will formally ...

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 ...

LA PAZ, Bolivia — President Hugo Banzer has cancer in his lung and liver, the government’s spokesman said Saturday, calling his condition grave but saying Banzer hadn’t yet decided whether to resign ...

Bolivia’s president and former military dictator relinquished power earlier this month, ending a four-year reign marked by mounting social protest and increasingly desperate economic and social ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bolivia's late president Hugo Banzer was buried on Monday with full military honours. He died after a 10-month battle against cancer of the liver and lungs. Banzer, 75, played a dominant role in ...