Of rightwing ultra-conservative anti-communist persuasion , García Meza endeavored to bring a Pinochet-style dictatorship that was intended to last 20 years . He immediately outlawed all political parties , exiled opposition leaders , repressed trade unions and muzzled the press . He was backed by former SS officer and Nazi German war criminal Klaus Barbie and Italian neofascist Stefano Delle Chiaie . Further collaboration came from other European neofascists , most notoriously Spanish Ernesto Milá Rodríguez ( accused of the 1980 Paris synagogue bombing ) . Among other foreign collaborators were professional torturers allegedly imported from the notoriously repressive Argentine dictatorship of General Jorge Videla
1980 Paris synagogue bombing
1980 Paris synagogue bombing
Luis García Meza