Alfredo Stroessner

Brun also talked about the Alfredo Stroessner dictatorship in Paraguay and the problems she suffered because she was married to an opposition politician. “The dictatorship that Paraguay lived left a lot of marks, but chains have been breaking free and the country is shaping a new face,” she said. The film ...

In Paraguay, the process of land reform was coopted by then-dictator Alfredo Stroessner to illegally dole out enormous tracts of land to his supporters and friends— about 8 million hectares in all, an area the size of Panama. These improperly allocated lands, called “tierras malhabidas” (ill-gotten lands) in ...

Though as recently as last year, the country debated whether to remove celebratory plaques praising the late dictator Alfredo Stroessner – who is blamed for the arrests of nearly 20,000 people, the exile of an additional 20,000, and the disappearance of 425 – in 1991, a group took down the structure ...