en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Su%C3%A1rez_G%C3%B3mez
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Subsequently, on the basis of Levine's book, on March 3, 2011, Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled the DEA from all operations in Bolivia.
This gets the date wrong. Morales suspended/expelled the DEA in Bolivia in late 2008; on March 3, 2011 he was reiterating that the DEA would not be allowed back.
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Contemporary reporting from November 2, 2008 states that Morales announced: "From today all the activities of the US DEA are suspended indefinitely," i.e. the operative expulsion/suspension happened in 2008, not in 2011. A later report from March 3, 2011 says Morales "assured that he will not allow [the DEA's] return to Bolivia, from where it was expelled in 2008." So the article's statement misdates the event by more than two years and confuses a 2011 reaffirmation with the original expulsion.
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- Morales halts US anti-drug efforts in Bolivia - ABC News
President Evo Morales said he was suspending the work of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Bolivia... "From today all the activities of the US DEA are suspended indefinitely," the Bolivian leader said.
- Evo: La DEA no volverá a Bolivia - Voz de América
El presidente Evo Morales... aseguró que no permitirá su regreso a Bolivia, de donde fue expulsada en 2008.
He took refuge with his wife (married April 25, 1940) Regine Margaretha Maria Willis (1913-1982) and their two children Ute-Messner (born 1941) and Hans-Jörg (1946-1981) in Argentina, but only for a short time before moving to Perù (1968-72) and, in the end, to Bolivia.
This reverses Barbie's postwar route. Reliable biographies say he fled to Bolivia in 1951 and lived there under the alias Klaus Altmann; Buenos Aires was a transit stop, not his main refuge before Bolivia.
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Authoritative reference works say Klaus Barbie was spirited to Bolivia in 1951 and thereafter lived there under the name Klaus Altmann. Deutsche Biographie states that he fled "over Genoa and Buenos Aires (Argentina) to La Paz (Bolivia)" in late March 1951, meaning Buenos Aires was part of the escape route, not the country where he primarily settled before later moving to Bolivia. Britannica likewise says that, beginning in 1951, he lived in Bolivia under the alias Klaus Altmann. So the article's claim that he first took refuge in Argentina, then moved to Peru from 1968 to 1972, and only "in the end" to Bolivia is incorrect.
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- Deutsche Biographie - Barbie, Klaus
1951 floh er mithilfe des US-Heeresgeheimdienstes CIC nach Bolivien... Ende März 1951 floh Barbie über Genua und Buenos Aires (Argentinien) nach La Paz (Bolivien).
- Klaus Barbie | SS Officer, Gestapo, Lyon | Britannica
Beginning in 1951, he lived as a businessman under the name Klaus Altmann in Bolivia.