 card number 19 from The drug war trading cards from Eclipse comics from 1991 Klaus Barbie and The fiance's of death Who's this? The Bolivian Cocaine Coup Wow, wow, wow. I don't know this one the history of this at all Living it up living it up card number 19 the Bolivian Cocaine Coup The 1980 Bolivian Cocaine Coup was financed by wealthy ranchers and drug lords under Roberto Suez Gomez A former cattleman who had become Bolivia's top cocaine baron his cousin Colne Louis Arce Gomez Was the Coup's most important military contact the two men gave general Louis Garcia Meza a bribe of one million three hundred thousand dollars to lead the operation Suez Gomez was impressed with the paramilitary skills of a mysterious German businessman named Klaus Altman Altman displayed such a affinity for intelligence work and integration techniques That are that on Suez's recommendation. He was given a leadership role in the Bolivian army Altman in turn hired two young Italians Parologi pike lia lee and Stefano del Chai To help plan the Coup assisting Altman was a group of mercenaries and Former nazi nazis known as the finance fiance's of death on July 17th 1980 the cocaine generals seize power within within months within months it was learned that tagliate and the Chai Chai Were right-wing p2 terrorists was suspected kills of three on three continents And the mysterious Klaus Altman was none other than fugitive nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie the butcher of Leon. Oh, wow Barbie who had spent hundreds of who had sent hundreds of jews to their deaths had avoided persecution when american America persecution when americans in occupied germany recruited him as an informer in 1947 and engineered his escape Barbie was extradited to france tried and convicted Pagliate was killed when international authorities tried to abduct him to stand trial in italy for the p2 order Bologna train bombing but they'll Chai escape the dragnet and fled to argentina In bolivia a reform coalition of cocaine goers and military men ousted garcia meza 13 months after the cocaine coup Apologies about butchering the names gang difficult