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Jump to full article: Associated Press (AP), 2002-05-05
Intro: Former President Hugo Banzer, a dictator turned democratically elected leader, died of a heart attack Sunday after a long battle with cancer, television station PAT reported. He was 75.
The two-time president will be remembered for eradicating coca, the plant used to make cocaine, in this poor Andean nation.
He died surrounded by his family in Santa Cruz, a tropical city in eastern Bolivia where he had been living since his doctor announced in late February that his lung cancer had spread to his brain and throughout his body. . . Banzer, a cigarette smoker, was diagnosed in July by doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington with lung cancer that had spread to his liver.
Banzer's cancer had forced him to resign the presidency on Aug. 6, 2001, a year before his term was due to end.
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