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| + | [[Joël van der Reijden]] writes about this coup which toppled the previous "cocaine regime" of [[Hugo Banzer]] in [[Bolivia]]: "The coup is partially made possible because a few months earlier the U.S. inexplicably released a major Bolivian drug trafficker with the name [[Jose Roberto Gasser]], a person with CIA and [[World Anti-Communist League]] (WACL) ties. Immediately Gasser and a number of associates, including [[cocaine]] kingpin [[Roberto Suarez]] of the old Hugo Banzer regime, teamed up with the military to plot the coup against the new democratically-elected government. [[CIA]]-linked [[Argentinian]] [[death squads]] played another key role in the coup."<ref>https://isgp-studies.com/cia-heroin-and-cocaine-drug-trafficking#luis-garcia-meza-tejada-cocaine-coup-bolivia</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 07:45, 3 October 2016
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| Date | 1980 |
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| Location | Bolivia |
Joël van der Reijden writes about this coup which toppled the previous "cocaine regime" of Hugo Banzer in Bolivia: "The coup is partially made possible because a few months earlier the U.S. inexplicably released a major Bolivian drug trafficker with the name Jose Roberto Gasser, a person with CIA and World Anti-Communist League (WACL) ties. Immediately Gasser and a number of associates, including cocaine kingpin Roberto Suarez of the old Hugo Banzer regime, teamed up with the military to plot the coup against the new democratically-elected government. CIA-linked Argentinian death squads played another key role in the coup."[1]
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