|
Alfredo Stroessner Dies
Paraguay's former military ruler Alfredo Stroessner has died aged 93 in a hospital in the Brazilian capital. General Stroessner had contracted pneumonia after an operation for a hernia on 29 July.Gen Stroessner, who led a military coup in 1954, had lived in exile in Brazil since being ousted in 1989. Paraguay had said earlier it would not pay tribute to him as he was a renegade from justice and was wanted for questioning over alleged rights abuses. Paraguayan judges had, on a number of occasions, requested the extradition of the former leader in connection with Operation Condor, a co-ordinated campaign carried out by South American military governments in the 1970s to quash their opponents. He squished the communists like insects and led Paraguay into decades of peace and prosperity. For this he was damned by liberals for making his country "boring". Though he may officially be condemned, a lot of Paraguayans remember him fondly. Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-08-16 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=163101 |