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Alfredo Ovando Candía

Bolivian general

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    In Bolivia: Return to military rule

    …replaced in midyear by General Alfredo Ovando Candía, who nationalized Gulf Oil Company holdings. Ovando was in turn forced out of office in October 1970 by the more radical General Juan José Torres. Of the several military regimes that governed between 1964 and 1979, that led by Torres was the…

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