In response, the US cut Bolivia off from international finance and planned a coup. Declassified documents include the transcript of a conversation between Nixon and Kissinger, where they explicitly discuss the coup (history.state.gov/historicaldo...),
and a record of the transference of funds to the coup-makers (history.state.gov/historicaldo...). The dictatorship, led by Hugo Banzer, banned all left-leaning political parties and arrested, tortured and/or killed thousands of political opponents.
Torres was forced into exile, and later kidnapped and assassinated in 1976 as part of US-backed Operation Condor. Operation Condor mobilized right-wing death squads to kill 80,000 leftist figures across Latin America.