Alfredo Arce Carpio (19 March 1941 – 9 February 2001) was a

Bolivia Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...

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, legal figure, and intellectual. He studied

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at the

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. Arce Carpio went on to become a

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, later serving as General Counsel of the

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and

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in Bolivia. In the field of politics, Arce Carpio held various positions in the first government of

Hugo Banzer Suárez Hugo Banzer Suárez (; 10 May 1926 – 5 May 2002) was a Bolivian politician and military officer who served as the 51st president of Bolivia. He held the Bolivian presidency twice: from 1971 to 1978 as a military dictator; and then again ...

, including Minister of Government, Justice, and Immigration, and Minister Without Portfolio. In 1987, he was involved in a

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scandal, which led to his suspension from membership in the

Nationalist Democratic Action Nationalist Democratic Action () is a right-wing political party in Bolivia led by Óscar Daza Márquez. ADN was founded on March 23, 1979 by the military dictator Hugo Banzer after he stepped down from power. As leader of the ADN, Banzer ran ...

(ADN).

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