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...send troops to support U.S. marines in the Dominican Republic in 1965. Brazil gave aid and material support in 1971 to General Hugo Banzer's Bolivia. Brazil's interests in Bolivia include one of the largest iron-ore deposits in the world and natural gas and petroleum deposits. General Stroessner, recently elected president of Paraguay, signed a treaty in May 1973 with Brazil rather than a proposed contract with Argentina, for the rights to build one of the world's largest hydroelectric plants in the River Plate basin...
...Honorary Consul at first seem highly local and temporary. The scene is South America in the '70s, and the situation is even closer to the daily headlines than was the case with The Comedians or The Quiet American. Some hapless Paraguayan guerrillas, stirred by General Stroessner's repressions, cross the border into northern Argentina. They aim to kidnap a visiting American ambassador and hold him against the release of ten political prisoners. But, as one character remarks, "nothing happens as we intend." Acting as his customary farce majeure, Greene has the revolutionaries mistakenly snatch and fruitlessly hold...
There, under the protection of Dictator General Alfredo Stroessner, he holds Paraguayan citizenship in his own name and is reputed to live on a tightly guarded estate said to be a haunt for former Nazis near the Brazilian border. He frequently slips out of the country for rendezvous with his wealthy family, despite a $70,000 Israeli-German reward for his capture...
...months, Ricord has been sitting in an Asunción prison cell, at the center of a diplomatic tug of war between the Nixon Administration and Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner's military dictatorship. Since October 1970, when federal agents seized five couriers with a shipment of 97.5 lbs. of heroin (worth about $12 million on the street) in Miami and succeeded in tracing it back to Ricord, the U.S. has been seeking to extradite him on conspiracy charges, alleging that he is the kingpin of a syndicate that piped more than 11,000 lbs. of heroin ($1.2 billion) through...
...neighboring Paraguay, Rocky was met by a cordial welcoming crowd of some 3,000 carefully selected Paraguayans. Again the Governor saw no hostility; President Alfredo Stroessner's experienced military dictatorship had seen to that. In friendly discussions, Paraguayan officials emphasized their landlocked country's need for $115 million in long-term U.S. loans...