General Alfredo Stroessner, the former President of Paraguay who died yesterday aged 93, was one of the last of Latin America's old-style military dictators. 17 August 2006 • 12:01am Stroessner came ...

The body of Paraguay's longtime former dictator was laid to rest here Thursday in the foreign soil where he spent his quiet exile, while back home some of those nostalgic for his rule paid tribute and ...

BRASILIA, Brazil – Alfredo Stroessner, the canny anti-communist general who ruled Paraguay for decades with a blend of force, guile and patronage before his ouster in 1989, died in exile Wednesday. He ...

Paraguay has requested the extradition from Brazil of the country's former military ruler Alfredo Stroessner. A judge has called for Mr Stroessner, who governed between 1954 and 1989, to be sent back ...

Alfredo Stroessner was Paraguay's military leader for 35 years, from 1954 to 1989. Under his rule the country became a haven for Nazi war criminals, peaceful opposition was crushed and the indigenous ...

If Latin American presidents who get themselves re-elected are regarded with grave suspicion by their electorates, then the blame rests largely with dictators such as Alfredo Stroessner of Paraguay, ...

Stroessner came to power in a coup which toppled President Federico Chavez in 1954, and succeeded in being elected and re-elected for eight five-year terms of office after revising the constitution, ...

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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 ...