How Paraguay Is Finally Reckoning With Its Dark Past
How Paraguay Is Finally Reckoning With Its Dark Past
By
Mat Youkee
The government has launched a probe of widespread sexual abuse during the last dictatorship. Will it be successful?
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It was nicknamed the caperucita roja — “Little Red Riding Hood” — and during the 1954 to 1989 dictatorship of the late General Alfredo Stroessner, the appearance of a red Chevrolet Custom 10 in the streets of Asunción was cause for fear. For political dissidents...
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