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Celso Torrelio
Celso Torrelio Villa was a military general and de facto president of Bolivia between September 1981 and August 1982.
A native of Padilla, department of Chuquisaca, Torrelio joined the Bolivian Army and rose to the rank of general. He served as the notorious dictator Luis Garcia Meza Tejada's Minister of Interior after the departure (forced by Washington) of the equally infamous Colonel Luis Arce Gomez. The Garcia Meza regime became internationally known for its extreme brutality. Some 1,000 people are estimated to have been killed by the Bolivian army and security forces between July of 1980 and August of 1981. ...
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