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Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda (Spanish: [alˈfɾeðo esˈtɾosneɾ]; 3 November 1912 – 16 August 2006) was a Paraguayan army officer, politician, and dictator who served as President of Paraguay from 15 August 1954 until his overthrow from power on 3 February 1989. His dictatorship is commonly referred inside Paraguay as El Stronato.
The 1954 Paraguayan coup d'état occurred in May 1954. It was led by Alfredo Stroessner, with the support of Epifanio Méndez Fleitas, and resulted in the overthrow of the government of Federico Chávez. The coup was the culmination of a complex series of political rivalries within the ruling Colorado Party.
The dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner, colloquially known as the Stronismo or Stronato, was the period of almost 35 years in the history of Paraguay in which army general Alfredo Stroessner ruled the country as a de facto one-party state under an authoritarian military dictatorship, from 15 August 1954 to 3 February 1989.
In a howl of dissent, crowds massed around the newly elected socialist mayor of Asunción, Paraguay’s capital, to tear down a bronze statue honoring Latin America’s longest-ruling dictator ...
Since the establishment of the office of President of the Republic in 1844, during the family dictatorship of the López family (1841–1870), Paraguay had 51 presidents. Between the end of the Paraguayan War in 1870 and the 1954 coup d'état , the country changed 44 presidents; 24 of them were removed from power by force. [ 2 ]
“This is probably the only country in which the political party that supported a dictator, once he is gone, remains in power,” said Alfredo Boccia, a researcher of Paraguay’s history. “That’s why scrutiny took so long, most disappeared were never found and there were barely trials.” Disappearances are a known phenomena in Latin America.
Presidential elections were held in Paraguay on 11 July 1954, [1] following a military coup on 8 May 1954 which toppled Federico Chávez who had been re-elected the previous year. At the time, the Colorado Party was the only legally permitted party.
Following the 1954 coup d'état, major general Alfredo Stroessner was elected President and was soon able to place his supporters in positions of power in the provisional government and in the Colorado Party, culminating in Stroessner securing power for himself and establishing the longest dictatorship in the history of Paraguay and Latin America.