Hugo Banzer person

“You know, like all of those presidents ago, because we've already had like two or three more coups. In January 1971, Colonel Banzer led a coup attempt, which came to nothing except his own exile to Argentina. The CIA had known of Banzer's p…”

“of the operation has to be assessed at tremendously high because if they're deaf and they can't hear each other, you know that it would have been another dismal failure. One week later, the San Francisco Chronicle, quote, although it has be…”

“A U.S. Comptroller General's report said, since the formulation of that government, quote, the objective of U.S. military assistance has been to provide stability and security. To assist in the objective, the U.S. provides materiel and trai…”

“So when the plotters were in military control of Santa Cruz, a breakdown in the radio communication network caused a delay in their rallying point and Bolivian military units coming to their aid. It was at this moment that Major London step…”

“L-A-N-G-E. And that Banzer immediately announced that his government would maintain very close relations with the U.S. because they installed him. Hello. Efforts to restore ties with Cuba and Chile would be abandoned. The trend towards nati…”

“was overthrown in yet another Bolivian coup, and the new Bolivian strongman, former Air Force General Juan Parida Osborne, Osborne, A-S-B-U-N, announced, as Banzer had, that he was saving the nation from international communism, unquote. An…”

“So before long, the government ordered the entire Soviet embassy to leave the country, which I'm sure was a dictate. And Banzer eventually paid a foreign loan or raised a foreign loan to pay Gulf Oil for basically their miscompensation duri…”