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...years ago this week, Army General Alfredo Stroessner seized control of Paraguay in a classic South American palace coup. He is still the landlocked little nation's undisputed Numero Uno. But no swelling bands or fancy parades will mark the anniversary. Stroessner may hoist a cup of fiery cana, the local rum, with a few army cronies- nothing more. At 51, he looks and acts more like a mild-mannered businessman than the most durable of Latin military dictators. Today the important thing for Stroessner is not the tormented past, and his own part in it, but the progress...
...survived, and only 28,000 of these were men. Again in the Chaco War of the 1930s, Paraguay took on Bolivia and won 20,000 sq. mi. of wilderness borderland-at a cost of one Paraguayan life for each square mile. Thus the prize won in 1954 by Stroessner, a veteran of the Chaco War, was a sleepy backwater, 600 miles by river from the sea, cobblestone-quaint but short on manpower and desperately poor. Only a few miles of roads were paved, and a wood-burning railroad served as the main land link to Argentina and the outside world...
...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...
...Paraguay's "elected" Dictator Alfre do Stroessner has instituted some democratic reforms-under U.S. urging-and seems to be a reliable friend...
...acres in Venezuela. In Chile, where about 70% of all productive land is held by 5% of the landowners, an agrarian reform law has been enacted, is gradually being enforced. Bolivia has distributed some 6,500.000 acres to 58,000 families. Even Paraguay's Dictator General Alfredo Stroessner has granted land titles to more than 10,000 squatters...