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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

His hands shaking and his voice quivering, President Hugo Banzer resigned from office, saying his battle with cancer makes it impossible for him to govern Bolivia, South America’s poorest nation.