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FORMER Bolivian dictator Luis Garcia Meza Tejada died yesterday in the capital La Paz after suffering four heart attacks.
The 86-year-old was admitted to hospital on Saturday in “critical condition.” Doctors were unable to revive him after a cardiac arrest yesterday morning.
General Garcia Meza led a 1980 right-wing military coup against his cousin, president Lidia Gueiler Tejada, installing a Pinochet-style dictatorship banning all political parties and clamping down on trade unions and the press.
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died 50 years ago today November 20. JIM JUMP looks back at his blood-soaked rule and toxic legacy on Spain today
