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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1980, June 29 | |
| Hernán Siles Suazo, candidate of the leftist Popular Democratic Union (UDP), won presidential elections. | 1 |
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| In what was known as the “cocaine coup,” military hard-liners under Gen. Luis García Meza Tejada seized power. The new regime escalated corruption and repression to new levels, and maintained close links with the exploding international cocaine trade. By 1981, cocaine was Bolivia's main export. | 2 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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