ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — It was one of the first actions taken by Paraguayans in public defiance of their overthrown dictator, a military strongman who unleashed a 35-year reign of terror, killing ...

General Alfredo Stroessner, the former President of Paraguay who died yesterday at 93, was one of the last of Latin America’s old-style military dictators. Stroessner came to power in a coup which ...

NOT only Africa has a heart of darkness. South America has one too, squeezed in the tight embrace of Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil. Two great rivers, the Paraguay and the Paraná, flow through Paraguay ...

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil? Longtime Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner, who was the longest-ruling leader in the Western Hemisphere until he was ousted from power in 1989, died Wednesday in Brasilia ...

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay — Despite being ousted in 1989 after a 35-year reign of terror, during which 20,000 people were tortured, executed or disappeared, some Paraguayans feel as if Gen. Alfredo ...

ASUNCION, ParaguayASUNCION, Paraguay — Human rights activists gained access Wednesday to a dictatorship-era military archive that appears to contain long-held secrets about Paraguay’s persecution of ...

ASUNCION, ParaguayASUNCION, Paraguay — The eldest son of the late dictator Alfredo Stroessner has died in Paraguay, and a human rights activist said Monday the death makes it more difficult to recover ...

South America’s two biggest democracies, Argentina and Brazil, last week were courting South America’s last dictator—General Alfredo Stroessner of cattle-raising Paraguay (pop. 1,700,000). In ...

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