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Hugo Banzer

1926 - 2002

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Hugo Banzer Suárez (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈuɣo ˈβanseɾ ˈswaɾes]; 10 May 1926 – 5 May 2002) was a Bolivian politician and military officer who served as the 51st president of Bolivia. He held the Bolivian presidency twice: from 1971 to 1978 as a military dictator; and then again from 1997 to 2001, as a democratically elected president. Banzer rose to power via a coup d'état against socialist president Juan José Torres and repressed labor leaders, clergymen, indigenous people, and students during his 1971–1978 dictatorship. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugo Banzer has received more than 489,234 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Hugo Banzer is the 5,296th most popular politician (up from 5,742nd in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Bolivia and the 3rd most popular Bolivian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hugo Banzer ranks 5,296 out of 19,576. Before him are Carl Johan Bernadotte, Leopold II, Margrave of Austria, Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Al-Said Barakah, Rozala of Italy, and Shaul Mofaz. After him are Emperor Chūkyō, Henryk IV Probus, Prince Charles of Prussia, Peter, Duke of Coimbra, Arnold Gehlen, and Sahadeva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Hugo Banzer ranks 92. Before him are Poul Anderson, Joan Sutherland, György Kurtág, Joachim Fest, James Stirling, and Karl Richter. After him are Patricia Neal, David H. Hubel, Siegfried Lenz, Alan Greenspan, László Papp, and Youssef Chahine. Among people deceased in 2002, Hugo Banzer ranks 57. Before him are Laurent Schwartz, César Milstein, Eduardo Chillida, Mauro Ramos, Stephen Jay Gould, and Henri Verneuil. After him are Agatha Barbara, John Frankenheimer, Joe Strummer, Chico Xavier, Shigeo Sugimoto, and Abba Eban.

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In Bolivia

Among people born in Bolivia, Hugo Banzer ranks 3 out of 105. Before him are Evo Morales (1959), and René Barrientos (1919). After him are Luis Arce (1963), Mario Terán (1942), Lidia Gueiler Tejada (1921), Luis García Meza (1929), Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (1930), Víctor Paz Estenssoro (1907), Andrés de Santa Cruz (1792), Jeanine Áñez (1967), and Túpac Katari (1750).

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Among POLITICIANS In Bolivia

Among politicians born in Bolivia, Hugo Banzer ranks 3. Before him are Evo Morales (1959), and René Barrientos (1919). After him are Luis Arce (1963), Lidia Gueiler Tejada (1921), Luis García Meza (1929), Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (1930), Víctor Paz Estenssoro (1907), Andrés de Santa Cruz (1792), Jeanine Áñez (1967), Jaime Paz Zamora (1939), and Carlos Mesa (1953).

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