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I see that a “former Bolivian president” (BBC) \/ “ex-Bolivian dictator” (CNN) \/ “former Bolivian leader” (Nando) has died. What kind of dictator did he become when he retired from being Bolivian? Why do you never<\/i> see “Bolivian ex-dictator” (or “British former prime minister”) in the news? Hm, maybe Ex-Bolivia and Former Britain are different countries . . . .<\/p>\n

LATER: I was delighted when it was briefly bandied about in 2004 that India might get a former Italian prime minister: Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born widow of Rajiv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I see that a “former Bolivian president” (BBC) \/ “ex-Bolivian dictator” (CNN) \/ “former Bolivian leader” (Nando) has died. What kind of dictator did he become when he retired from being Bolivian? Why do you never see “Bolivian ex-dictator” (or … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4420,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/4420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}