Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda was born Nov. 3, 1912, in Encarnación, a town on Paraguay's southeastern border with Argentina, where his Bavarian-born father started a brewery. His mother came from ...

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 a huge fortune amassed by his family.

General Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda, dictator of Paraguay, died on August 16th, aged 93. Try for free. ... South America has one too, squeezed in the tight embrace of Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil.

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, 93, Old-Style Military Dictator of Paraguay. ... Rightwing military coups in Brazil (in 1964) and Argentina (in 1966) also improved the political climate. Stroessner’s foreign ...

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 ...

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. UK News Website of the Year 2024 ...

When mutinous army units launched a violent coup to topple Gen. Alfredo Stroessner in February, some troops loyal to the old dictator tried to drive their army tanks out from a presidential compoun… ...

Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda, military commander and politician: born Encarnación, Paraguay 3 November 1912; President of Paraguay and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces 1954-89; married 1940 ...

FILE - Former detainees react as retired Police Commissioner Eusebio Torres receives a 30-year sentence for torturing detainees during Gen. Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship, at Justice Palace in ...