Alfredo Stroessner
Military dictator of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989
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- Fame57.8
- Momentum0.1
- Politicians rank#129
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Lived 1912–2006, aged 94
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He held Paraguay for thirty-five years through rigged elections, banned opposition, and state terror administered by military police who doubled as secret enforcers. When his own confidant finally staged a coup in 1989, Stroessner fled to Brazil and died there seventeen years later, but the party machine he built still runs the country.
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Stroessner took power on 4 May 1954 in a coup backed by the Colorado Party and the army, then won an unopposed election that August after all rival parties had been banned since 1947. He suspended constitutional and civil rights immediately, deploying the army and military police as secret police to crush opponents through violent repression. Though opposition parties were nominally legalized in 1962, he kept winning through electoral fraud from 1958 through 1988. The 1967 Constitution permitted his re-election; changes in 1977 let him rule indefinitely. On 2 and 3 February 1989, his trusted c…
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