Suriname ex-dictator died of liver failure, autopsy shows

Bouterse's body was dropped off Tuesday at his residence in the capital Paramaribo by unidentified people, after he spent years hiding in an undisclosed location following a conviction in the killing of political opponents in 1982. The autopsy results, released on Saturday by authorities in the small South American country, gave his cause of death as "a liver failure complication from serious liver fibrosis caused by chronic alcohol consumption." Bouterse died either on December 23 or 24, the autopsy said.