President Hugo Banzer, who has been battling cancer, will resign Aug. 6 because of his health problems, the country's information minister said Friday. Vice President Jorge Quiroga, 41, will formally ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Bolivian President Hugo Banzer, who is battling lung and liver cancer, will resign from office next month and hand the reins of South America’s poorest nation to Vice ...

Hugo Banzer, a right-wing general who seized power in a 1971 coup, on Sunday won the largest share of the popular vote in Bolivia’s presidential election, an exit poll showed. But if Banzer, of the ...

BUENOS AIRES -- Hugo Banzer, 75, the former dictator of Bolivia who later won the nation's top office at the ballot box, died May 5 at his home in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, after a heart attack. He had ...

GENERAL HUGO BANZER SUÁREZ, who has died at Santa Cruz, aged 75, was that unusual phenomenon, a South American military dictator who reinvented himself as a democratic politician, founded his own ...

BOLIVIA: The former Bolivian dictator, Mr Hugo Banzer, died early yesterday at his home in the eastern city of Santa Cruz surrounded… BOLIVIA: The former Bolivian dictator, Mr Hugo Banzer, died early ...

Bolivian President Hugo Banzer, who is seriously ill with cancer, has resigned and handed power to his Vice-President, Jorge Quiroga. Amid shouts of encouragement from his supporters, 75-year-old Mr ...

Hugo Banzer Suarez, the general who ruled Bolivia as an ironfisted dictator in the 1970s and returned from exile and ignominy a generation later to become the democratically elected president, died of ...

Bolivia's president Hugo Banzer Suárez declared his intention to resign from his hospital bed in Washington Friday and will hand over power to his vice president Jorge Quiroga Ramirez next month. The ...

Bolivian President Hugo Banzer, who is suffering from cancer, will resign on 6 August - Bolivia's Independence Day, government officials say. Mr Banzer, aged 76, is currently undergoing treatment for ...