Alfredo Stroessner, 93, former Paraguayan dictator OBITUARY International Herald Tribune | August 18, 2006| | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Diana Jean Schemo
International Herald Tribune
08-18-2006
General Alfredo Stroessner, the former president of Paraguay who has died at the age of 93, maintained a harsh and capricious 35-year hold on power that made him South America's most enduring dictator during the Cold War and gave him the aura of a character out of a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel.Stroessner had lived in Brazil since 1989, moving there after his ouster by his second-in-command, General Andres Rodriguez, a relative by marriage. The cause of his death on Wednesday was a stroke, The Associated Press said, citing information ...

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