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Stroessner

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Stroessner [ˈstrəʊsnə]
n
(Biographies / Stroessner, Alfredo (1912 M, Paraguayan, MILITARY: soldier, POLITICS: politician, POLITICS: head of state) Alfredo. born 1912, Paraguayan soldier and politician; president (1954-89): deposed in a military coup


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Democracy was restored in 1989 at the end of the 35-year dictatorship of General Alfredo Stroessner.
Democracy was restored in Paraguay only in 1989, at the end of the 35-year dictatorship of General Alfredo Stroessner.
present a political biography of Francisco Solano Lopez (1826-1870), the Paraguayan dictator reviled by his contemporaries for having begun the War of the Triple Alliance, which devastated the country and resulted in the permanent loss of disputed territories to its rivals, and later politically resuscitated as a national hero by 20th century Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda.
 
 
 
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