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Over the years, his activities began to form a patchwork quilt of legend and rumor. He was reported to have masterminded a heroin-trafficking ring in Paraguay; he was said to have been Stroessner's personal physician, as well as the dictator's special adviser in a genocidal campaign against Paraguay's Ache Indians. Like some dark spirit, he seemed to be everywhere at once, often hidden behind sunglasses; he was sighted in Bolivia, Uruguay and Chile, and in the jungles of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay...
...gone through Italy to Argentina, where he took up residence in Buenos Aires and began to represent the family firm, Karl Mengele & Sons, a manufacturer of agricultural equipment (the firm is still run by Mengele's family in Gunzburg). Around this time, he is said to have met Alfredo Stroessner, the grandson of a Bavarian cavalry officer, who seized power in Paraguay in 1954. When a Frankfurt court issued an order for Mengele's arrest in 1959, he fled to Paraguay to avoid extradition...
...torture has been justified as a way to combat insurgencies. Prisoners in both countries are often deprived of food, subjected to electric shock, or suspended by their arms while handcuffed behind their backs. In Paraguay torture has become an administrative tool to enforce the firm grip of President Alfredo Stroessner, who seized control of the country 30 years ago. Paraguayans who are suspected of belonging to left-wing groups are often held incommunicado in cramped cells without natural light, fresh air, medical attention or much food for days or even weeks...
...language of the Guaraní Indians. Now Itaipu has a new significance: it is the name of the largest hydroelectric dam in the world, an $18.5 billion structure that was officially dedicated last week by Brazilian President João Baptista Figueiredo and his Paraguayan counterpart, Alfredo Stroessner. Said Figueiredo after the two heads of state pulled a lever opening the dam's orange-colored floodgates: "This is an example for developing countries. Itaipu shows that our people are capable of developing our own technology...
...Still, it was to Miami that his body was flown for burial. It was Miami that had also been his first stop as an exile. But then, fearful that the U.S. might allow his extradition to Nicaragua, he moved on to Paraguay at the invitation of Dictator Alfredo Stroessner. In Asunción, Somoza's flamboyant social life and amorous escapades offended many Paraguayans. His reluctance to invest his hoarded fortune (estimated at $100 million) in the country was also said to have caused resentment. There was no doubt that Somoza had made bitter personal enemies as well...