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Stroessner got off to a dictator's ironfisted start, organizing a tough secret police, suppressing all opposition, packing the prisons. Close to 300,000 Paraguayans now live in exile. At Stroessner's Colorado party headquarters in the Asuncion capital, functionaries keep IBM listings on everyone who applies for party membership; there are 400,000 names on file. Stroessner is staunchly antiCommunist, but beyond that he does not concern himself with ideology. When a visitor once suggested that Paraguay needed a first-class public relations man to improve its image abroad, the general replied: "We don't need...
...politician can count on the market woman's undying support. Strong-willed and fiercely independent, she regards mankind in general with profound suspicion and reserves her deepest loyalty for the Roman Catholic Church. Paraguay's Pettirosi Market in the capital of Asuncion is built around a rustic brick chapel, and each morning when the market women troop past, they light candles, kneel down and pray, and place flowers on the altar. "Most men are drunken no-goods," says one market matriarch. "Priests are the only members of their sex I can respect...
...long will their asylum last? The two countries still argue over the brothers. Argentina refuses them safe conduct to Paraguay's capital of Asuncion. Tiny Paraguay, eager to stand up to its big neighbor, is determined not to turn them over. The Cardosos grimly look forward to 1967, when the statute of limitations should run out. Then, after twelve years in asylum, they hope to be free, having set a record that is likely to stand a while...
With the chill of southern hemisphere winter compounding the police-state stillness, Asuncion appeared even quieter than usual. The capital's cobbled, orange-tree-lined streets were mostly deserted except for a few trudging, overcoated citizens. But beneath the icy surface of Paraguay there was a thawing new ray of hope. Men whispered word of it across the marble tabletops of kerosene-heated coffeehouses, over steaming mate, the herb tea sipped from a gourd through a metal straw. The hope, still dim but voiced seriously for the first time, is that outside pressure-chiefly from the U.S.-will eventually...
...from behind the laxly guarded Brazilian frontier. Last March the entire town of General E. Aquino-along with its Stroessner-appointed mayor-rose up in revolt, and had to be cowed by army bullets. Three died, 100 were arrested. During Independence celebrations last May, 2,000 students paraded through Asuncion in competition with the official ceremony. Stroessner's police broke them up with clubs and chains...