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.

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 ...

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… ...

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 ...

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 ...

General Alfredo Stroessner, ... Right-wing military coups in Brazil (in 1964) and Argentina (in 1966) also improved the political climate.

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 ...