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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (1): 179.
Published: 01 February 1993
...W. E. Hewitt El papel de la iglesia en la caida de Stroessner . By Carter Miguel . Asunción : RP Ediciones , 1991 . Notes. Bibliography. Appendixes . 168 pp. Paper . Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Examinations of church organizations and their involvement...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1991) 71 (2): 400–401.
Published: 01 May 1991
...Paul Lewis The Stroessner Era: Authoritarian Rule in Paraguay . By Miranda Carlos R. . Boulder : Westview Press , 1990 . Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 177 pp. Cloth . $33.50 . Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Carlos Miranda’s short, well-written...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1971) 51 (4): 705–706.
Published: 01 November 1971
...R. G. Political Leaders of Latin America: Ché Guevara, Alfredo Stroessner, Eduardo Frei Montalva, Juscelino Kubitschek, Carlos Lacerda, Eva Perón . By Bourne Richard . New York , 1970 . Alfred A. Knopf . Bibliography. Index. Pp. X, 310. Cloth . $8.95 . Copyright 1971 by Duke...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (1): 175–176.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Bridget M. Chesterton The Stroessner Regime and Indigenous Resistance in Paraguay . By Horst René D. Harder . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2008 . Maps. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 224 pp. Hardcover . Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1981) 61 (4): 775–776.
Published: 01 November 1981
...Harris Gaylord Warren Lewis has made judicious use of the limited resources available for a serious study of Stroessner’s closed political system. He has skillfully accomplished a very difficult task and has summarized his findings with such perception that this volume should be required reading...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (2): 386–388.
Published: 01 May 2020
... The dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner (1954–89) is infamous for its longevity and brutality. Seeking to understand how Stroessner remained in power for such a long period of time, Kirk Tyvela's important new work puts into perspective how not only Stroessner consolidated his power locally by limiting dissent...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (1): 178–180.
Published: 01 February 2024
... of friendship in the light of past hostility and went something like this: it took a war for the two countries to get to know each other. In one auspicious state visit to La Paz in 1957, the still-young Paraguayan autocrat, Alfredo Stroessner—a veteran of the conflict himself—even described the mutual bloodshed...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1983) 63 (1): 202–203.
Published: 01 February 1983
... and Panama. The editor, unfortunately, strains mightily at the truth in stating: “Small, poor, largely Indian in race, Paraguay is one of the South American countries most similar to Central America; Stroessner has long been the nearest counterpart to Somoza” (p. vii). Author Lewis, of course, is too well...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1997) 77 (3): 542–543.
Published: 01 August 1997
... and is the more welcome therefore. Regarding the Stroessner regime, Peter Lambert quite correctly focuses on the social and economic factors that help explain the dictator’s longevity, differentiating him from most of the other twentieth-century Paraguayan dictators. Particularly to the point is Lambert’s...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (3): 568–569.
Published: 01 August 2008
... . Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 One evening in early 1988, Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner sent his National Police to throw tear gas at a private party where United States ambassador Clyde Taylor was dining, an incident that reflected deteriorating bilateral relations as Washington...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (2): 306–307.
Published: 01 May 2014
... (1936), an autochthonous socialist movement independent of both Moscow and Beijing. The ascendance of General Alfredo Stroessner, the subject of “Dictatorship and Resistance” (chapter 5), halted the contest for the presidency and the rapid transition (sometimes lasting only weeks) between executives...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (4): 649–679.
Published: 01 November 2014
... corporation in the history of Paraguay. In a December 5, 1978, communiqué to the founder of Conempa, engineer Juan Carlos Wasmosy Monti, General Alfredo Stroessner (r. 1954–1989) praised the new company, stating that the Itaipú Binacional hydroelectric dam project “had definitively established the ability...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (1): 183–184.
Published: 01 February 1969
... political, social, and economic development than the Febrerista party itself” (p. 96). The account of Paraguay’s complex political developments from 1936 to the Stroessner coup of 1954 is excellent. After this blow against Morínigo, the Febreristas continued in exile or underground for the most part...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (4): 741–742.
Published: 01 November 1970
..., and a short, poorly selected bibliography. Every Latin American scholar will wonder why the six politicians selected were Che Guevara, Alfredo Stroessner, Eduardo Frei Montalvo, Juscelino Kubitschek, Carlos Lacerda, and Evita Perón. Bourne thought that each of these represented a type of Latin American...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1970) 50 (1): 198–200.
Published: 01 February 1970
... stresses the degree of individual and political freedom under the “benevolent autocracy” of the Stroessner government. Yet at the same time he calls for a reduction in military outlays, less dependence of the government upon the military, and broadly-based representative government. From the reviewer’s...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (3): 530–531.
Published: 01 August 1994
... Stroessner , was likewise the first to delve at length into the 1954-89 dictatorship. So it is again, in large part, with the present study, an incisive look at the Liberal period (1869-1940)—usually regarded as the terra incognita that lies between the classic era of the great dictators (Dr. Francia...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (2): 365–366.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., follows the political evolution of Paraguay through the hegemony of the National Republican Association–Colorado Party between 1954 and 2019. The authors study the origins of one of the longest dictatorships in Latin America, linking Alfredo Stroessner's rule directly with foreign interests, especially...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (3): 558–559.
Published: 01 August 1987
... contemporary peasant social movements in Paraguay, both of which were crushed by the Stroessner regime in the 1970s. The Ligas Agrarias were centered in the southern department of Misiones, while the Pueblo de Dios originated in the frontier area of Caaguazú. The former was a Catholic-based movement...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (2): 335.
Published: 01 May 1994
..., military, and business figures; from diplomatic agreements and treaties and famous military units to major economic enterprises, journals, and magazines. The entries run from “Abdo Benítez, Mario,” a leading politician in the Stroessner regime, to “Zuccolollo, Antonio,” a prominent business figure...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1979) 59 (3): 584–585.
Published: 01 August 1979
... was skulking in remote Paraguayan villages protected by the Stroessner connection. In the climactic chapters of his personal narrative, Erich Erdstein has related a different story. Erdstein begins his own tale with his flight from Austria in 1938. He managed to get to Montevideo, there to begin a life...
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