Stroessner in a sentence

Stroessner, 1954-89 main Paraguayan stamp with Stroessner As one of the few officers who had remained loyal to Moríñigo, Stroessner became a formidable player once he entered the higher echelons of the armed forces.

Paraguay was modernized to some extent under Stroessner's regime, although his rule was marked by extensive civil right abuses. citation Stroessner and the Colorado party ruled the country from 1954 to 1989.

He repeatedly refused to condemn the dictatorship outright, expressing regret for the 425 people killed and nearly 19,000 tortured under Stroessner but emphasising what he called the “achievements” of the military regime.

Although Stroessner tried to prevent him from doing so, Pope John Paul II met opposition leaders in the one-party state.

At the time of his death Stroessner was the defendant in several human rights cases in Paraguay.

During his private meeting with Stroessner, John Paul II told the dictator: Politics has a fundamental ethical dimension because it is first and foremost a service to man.

Paraguay main The partnership between the anti-communist governments of General Alfredo Stroessner and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was quite natural.

Paraguay The collapse of the dictatorship of General Alfredo Stroessner of Paraguay was linked, among other things, to Pope John Paul II's visit to the South American country in 1989.

Positive steps to correct these inequities have occurred since the 1989 ousting of Stroessner, and the occupation by the poor of hundreds of thousands of acres of land, which they claimed for subsistence farming.

Suspecting that Moríñigo would not relinquish power to González, a group of Colorado military officers, including Stroessner, removed Moríñigo from office on June 3, 1948.

The creation of one-party rule and order at the expense of political liberty and acceptance of the army's role as the final political arbiter created conditions for the emergence of Stroessner's regime.

The first was the completion of the road from Asunción to Puerto Presidente Stroessner and to Brazilian seaports on the Atlantic, ending traditional dependence on access through Argentina and opening the east to many for the first time.

The Stroessner regime relented in April 1987, and permitted Laino to return to Asunción.

When a revolt at the Asunción Navy Yard put a strategic working-class neighborhood in rebel hands, Stroessner's regiment quickly reduced this area to rubble.

When rebel gunboats threatened to dash upriver from Argentina to bombard the capital into submission, Stroessner's forces battled furiously and destroyed them.