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...Alfredo Stroessner, the dean of western despots after 34 years of iron rule in Paraguay, was ousted in 1989 after a military coup. He fled to Brazil, where he lives in a well-guarded mansion in Brasilia. Stroessner is said to enjoy fishing and traveling around the country visiting his former military buddies. He is also known to be an ardent fan of Xuxa (pronounced Shoo-shah), Brazil's Barbie-esque kiddie-show hostess...
...ALFREO STROESSNER...
...Paraguay's future course is far from certain. In the hours after the coup, citizens ventured into the streets, scarcely able to believe Stroessner's demise and encouraged by Rodriguez's rhetoric pledging "the initiation of democratization." But while Rodriguez is popular with his troops, his lengthy association with Stroessner casts doubt on his claims. His style of high living is attributed to heavy involvement in Paraguay's large-scale smuggling and drug trade. As a U.S. intelligence analyst put it, "He's been a 30-year intimate of the old man. He's not going to reinvent the wheel...
...Stroessner, who provided asylum for some of the most reviled figures in modern times, such as Nazi death-camp doctor Josef Mengele and Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, is expected to live out his exile, possibly in Chile. There he would be the guest of Augusto Pinochet, now the very last of Latin America's old-style dictators, who himself faces political extinction following presidential elections scheduled for December...
Once unequal partners, then fierce and feuding competitors, the leviathans of the Communist world have finally attained a measure of mutual respect. -- How the U.S. can profit from the new detente. -- In Paraguay, longtime dictator Alfredo Stroessner is toppled. -- Inside the KGB: rare photos of the supersecretive Soviet security agency at work...