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Luis García Meza, Bolivian Dictator Jailed for Genocide, Dies at 88 (English)
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Nationwide democratic elections were held in the mid-1980s, but pretrial investigations and hearings into the charges against General García Meza took a decade.He was accused not only of collusion with cocaine traffickers but also of collaborating in his coup with Klaus Barbie, the Nazi “butcher of Lyon,” who had been living in Bolivia under an alias and was extradited to France in 1983.In 1993, General García Meza was finally convicted in absentia of genocide, sedition, corruption and other crimes, including the illegal sale of diaries belonging to the leftist Cuban guerrilla leader Che Guevara, who had been captured and killed in Bolivia in 1967.After hiding for years, General García Meza was arrested and extradited to Bolivia from Brazil in 1995 and began serving the maximum 30-year prison term. (English)