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Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda (Spanish: [alˈfɾeðo esˈtɾosneɾ]; 3 November 1912 – 16 August 2006) was a Paraguayan army officer, politician and dictator who served as President of Paraguay from 15 August 1954 until his overthrow from power on 3 February 1989.
The dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner, colloquially known as Stronismo or Stronato, was the period of almost 35 years in the history of Paraguay in which army general Alfredo Stroessner ruled the country as a de facto one-party state under an authoritarian military dictatorship, from 15 August 1954 to 3 February 1989.
5 days ago · Alfredo Stroessner (born Nov. 3, 1912, Encarnación, Para.—died Aug. 16, 2006, Brasília, Braz.) was a military leader, who became president of Paraguay after leading an army coup in 1954. One of Latin America’s longest-serving rulers, he was overthrown in 1989.
Jun 29, 2024 · Seventy years since General Alfredo Stroessner seized power in the small Latin American country, memories of his bloody legacy and the massacre it triggered in 2012 live on.
Aug 15, 2024 · The feet are what remains of a statue of former dictator Gen. Alfredo Stroessner (1912-2006) that was removed several decades ago from Victory Peace Monument which features national heroes on Lambare Hill in Asuncion, Paraguay, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, the day before the 70th anniversary of the start of Stroessner’s regime that lasted 35 years.
Aug 15, 2024 · It has been 70 years to the day that Latin America’s longest-ruling dictator, Gen. Alfredo Stroessner, seized power in Paraguay in a 1954 coup and secured the virtually uninterrupted dominance ...
Aug 17, 2006 · Gen. Alfredo Stroessner, the former president of Paraguay whose harsh and capricious 35-year hold on power made him South America’s most enduring dictator during the cold war and gave him the ...
Aug 17, 2024 · The authoritarian Stroessner, with aid from the United States and later Brazil, managed to stabilize one of the world’s least-stable currencies, attract foreign investment, and embark on large public works projects. Paraguayan isolation was broken down.
Aug 16, 2006 · Former Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner, the authoritarian anti-communist general who forcefully ruled the country for 34 years, died in exile on Wednesday. He was 93.
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May 23, 2018 · From 1954, when he seized power in a coup, to 1989, when his former right-hand man forced him into exile, Stroessner enforced his absolute power and cult of personality through bribery, fear, and torture. He made Paraguay a safe haven for evil, from smugglers to ex-dictators to Nazi war criminals.
