In 1980, the Army officer Luis García Meza seized power, in what became known as the “cocaine coup,” and installed the world’s first narco-dictatorship. After the Second World War, the Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie found refuge in Bolivia and lent his services as an interrogator to the security services, earning the rank of lieutenant colonel. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were run to ground there, in 1908, and Che Guevara fought his final battle in the Bolivian mountains, in 1967. Photograph by Jair Cabrera Torres / Picture Alliance/ Gettyįor most of its history, the poor, landlocked South American country of Bolivia has been regarded as a last refuge for outlaws. ![]() ![]() Bolivia is consumed by a debate over whether President Evo Morales was ousted in a coup or in a democratic uprising.
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