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Stroessner

(ˈstrəʊsnə)
n
(Biography) Alfredo. 1912–2006, Paraguayan soldier and politician; president (1954–89): deposed in a military coup
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Reconociendo la naturaleza "tramposa" que tiene la corta duracion para las ciencias sociales, por su caracter "explosivo y detonante, caprichoso y enganoso" (Braudel, 1970), lo enmarcaremos en una dimension coyuntural que lo supere en cuanto escala temporal: el proceso de transicion a la democracia que se inaugura en Paraguay tras el fin del regimen autoritario de Alfredo Stroessner (1989).
Poststronismo, reforma constitucional y transicion democratica. La construccion de una nueva legalidad en Paraguay
Lilian Soto aborda la lucha de las mujeres que durante la dictadura de Alfredo Stroessner resistieron con su arte y escritura, con su militancia en partidos politicos proscritos, o con las armas.
Bilbija, Ksenija, Ana Forcinito y Bernardita Llanos, editoras. Poner el cuerpo: rescatar y visibilizar las marcas sexuales y de genero de los archivos dictatoriales del Cono Sur
Regreso a Paraguay protegido por el gobierno del dictador Alfredo Stroessner y, aunque escondido, mantuvo hasta su muerte en 1979 siempre la !dea de apoyar desde el Atlantico los planes que Walter Rauff cumplia en Chile para la edificacion de ese IV Reich, que se relataron en la primera parte de este mismo articulo.
LA HISTORIA NO ESCRITA DEL CUARTO REICH: En Sudamerica
It remains a land of contrasts, still marked by the 1954-1989 dictatorship of General Alfredo Stroessner.
Paraguay candidate with ties to dictatorship set to win presidency
Alfredo Stroessner throughout his 35-year dictatorship.
New Left-Center Alliance Hopes to Win Back Paraguay's Presidency
The US has faced criticism for backing right-wing dictators that systematically violated human rights, such as Augusto Pinochet of Chile, Alfredo Stroessner of Paraguay, Efrain Rios Montt of Guatemala, Jorge Rafael Videla of Argentina, Hissene Habre of Chad, Yahya Khan of Pakistan and Suharto of Indonesia.
The rise of neo-imperialism
| "It's a pleasant change to be in a country that isn't ruled by its people" (to Alfredo Stroessner, the Paraguayan dictator).
The gaffes that made Prince Philip a 'national treasure'
Hitler allegedly spent a decade there before moving to Paraguay, where he lived under the protection of President Alfredo Stroessner, who had German roots.
Thousands of Nazis fled to South Americawas the Fuhrer one of them? NEW HOME THAT AWAITED HITLER IN ARGENTINA
The artist is a formalist whose subject is the history of her native Paraguay--poor, landlocked, governed for decades by the ruthless right-wing dictator General Alfredo Stroessner.
The persistence of memory: J. Hoberman on Paz Encina
But Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner, resplendent in military uniform and floor-length cape, was already on the way to the event, along with his foreign minister and dozens of other dignitaries, so Ageton decided to proceed.
Buried 60 year: embassy unearths missing time capsule
Eso justifica que en el mismisimo portal electronico del Partido Colorado aparezca como uno de los dirigentes historicos nada menos que Alfredo Stroessner sin absolutamente ninguna referencia critica de su larguisimo paso por el poder.
PARAGUAY DESPUES DEL GOLPE: EL PRECIO DE PONERSE COLORADO
was involved connected with local Paraguayans, especially the Spanish-speaking elites (such as the dictator Alfredo Stroessner).
Das Mennonitische Zentralkomitee in Paraguay 1930-1980
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