Word: stroessner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...over in La Paz to deliver a message to President René Barrientos, who had boycotted the summit meeting. Lleras brought word from Chile's Eduardo Frei that he was willing to discuss with Barrientos the possibility of granting Bolivia access to the sea. Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner plans to visit Ongania in Buenos Aires in July...
...PARAGUAY. After eleven years under Dictator-President Alfredo Stroessner, the country's 1,900,000 people do not have democracy in the U.S. sense, or much hope of achieving it in the near future. But the regime is growing more benign, and Paraguayans are beginning to know a little prosperity. Attracted by rocklike stability (the guarani at 126 to the dollar has not budged in five years), foreign investment has increased steadily. U.S. firms have spent more than $25 million to build meat-packing plants, a bottled-gas facility, a hydroelectric station and an oil refinery. Last year, exports...
...dictatorship is changing too. As a practical matter, not out of any sudden conversion to democracy, Stroessner now tolerates an opposition, relatively tame though it may be. In the 1963 presidential elections, a nominal opposition got on the ballot for the first time, and by law wound up with an automatic 20 of the 60 seats in Congress. (In Mexico's one-party "guided democracy," the ruling P.R.I, also guarantees some seats to its opposition-but up to 11%, not 33%.) "We allow freedom for all non-Communist political parties," says Edgar Ynsfran, 43, Stroessner's ambitious...
...sense the old-style jack-booted dictatorship. I've worked in Venezuela during the time of Perez Jimenez, in the Dominican Republic under Trujillo, in Argentina under Peron. There is no atmosphere of tension and fear. The idea is order, to build something." That is how Stroessner sees himself-as Paraguay's builder. His term expires in 1968, and constitutionally he is barred from running again. But in Stroessner's Paraguay, the builder can always reconstruct a constitution...