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 ...

South America’s two biggest democracies, Argentina and Brazil, last week were courting South America’s last dictator—General Alfredo Stroessner of cattle-raising Paraguay (pop. 1,700,000 ...

Gen. Alfredo Stroessner (left) salutes with Alejandro Agustin Lanusse Gelly, president of Argentina, in 1972 FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Between the documents and grainy, ...

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 ...

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 Stroessner never truly left.

Federico Tatter holds a photo of his father, who was detained and disappeared in Argentina in 1976 during Paraguay's Stroessner dictatorship, during an interview at the Military Academy in ...

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 ...

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — Despite being ousted in 1989 after a ...

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — 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 ...