# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/luis-garcia-meza-tejada
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:37:11.099Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/luis-garcia-meza-tejada"
name: "Luis García Meza Tejada"
slug: "luis-garcia-meza-tejada"
description: "Luis Arturo García Meza Tejada was a Bolivian military officer who served as the 57th president of Bolivia from 1980 to 1981. He was a dictator convicted of human rights violations and leader of a violent coup. A native of La Paz, he was a career military officer who rose to the rank of general during the dictatorship of Hugo Banzer (1971–78)."
tagline: "Bolivian dictator (1929-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LuisGarc%C3%ADaMeza1980.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1929-08-08"
deathDate: "2018-04-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.8663323534497667
  historical:           21.026224
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump