[news] Paraguay: Bulwark of U.S. Imperialism?

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

No official honors were paid to (former Paraguayan dictator) Alfredo Stroessner upon his death in exile in Brasilia on Aug.16. But Paraguay today is still essentially the country he created -- its economy, poverty and corruption all containing particular Stroessner-era traits. And once again it has become a symbolic bulwark against America's foreign enemies...As militarization advances memories of Stroessner's brutal anti-guerrila campaigns have resurfaced. 

  


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