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Stroessner's response was to employ the state's virtually unlimited power by giving a free hand to the military and to Minister of Interior Edgar Ynsfrán, who began to harass, terrorize, and occasionally murder family members of the regime's foes.
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Repression was a key factor in Stroessner's longevity.
Another major factor in Stroessner's favor was a change in attitude among his domestic opposition.
Ynsfrán opposed political decompression and was unhappy about Stroessner's increasingly clear intention to stay president for life.
Perhaps the clearest example of cracks in Stroessner's regime was the assassination of Somoza.
While Stroessner's rule saw more stability than any living Paraguayan had ever known, it came at a high cost ; corruption was rampant ( Stroessner himself did not dispute charges of corruption at some levels in his government ) and the Stroessner government's human rights record was considered one of the poorest in South America.
One reason for the coup was that the generals feared one of Stroessner's offspring would succeed him.
Born in Coronel Oviedo, Caaguazú, Nicanor Duarte grew up during the Stroessner administration and was affiliated with Stroessner's Colorado Party at the age of 14 while attending high school in Coronel Oviedo.
As a candidate, Argaña was criticised for bringing Stroessner's era officials back to political life, through his faction Colorado Reconciliation Movement.
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It served as one of the " twin pillars " of Stroessner's 35-year rule, one of the longest in history by a non-royal leader.
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Several factors strengthened Stroessner's hand.
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Stroessner's adoption of economic austerity measures proved unpopular with military officers, who had grown used to getting soft loans from the Central Bank ; with businessmen, who disliked the severe tightening of credit ; and with workers, who went out on strike when they no longer received pay raises.
In addition, Stroessner's economic policies had boosted exports and investment and reduced inflation, and the military coups in Brazil in 1964 and Argentina in 1966 also improved the international climate for nondemocratic rule in Paraguay.
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Regime opponents who agreed to play Stroessner's electoral charade received rewards of privileges and official recognition.
Stroessner's parents were Hugo Strößner, who emigrated from Hof, Bavaria, Germany, and worked as an accountant for a brewery, and Heriberta Matiauda, who grew up in a wealthy Paraguayan family of criollo Spanish descent.
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When a revolt at the Asunción Navy Yard put a strategic working-class neighborhood in rebel hands, Stroessner's regiment quickly reduced the area to rubble.
When rebel gunboats threatened to dash upriver from Argentina to bombard the capital into submission, Stroessner's forces battled furiously and knocked them out of commission.
In addition, the new Argentine government, displeased with Stroessner's cordial relations with Perón, canceled a trade agreement.
Upon reaching Asunción during his 1958 tour of Latin America, Vice President Richard Nixon praised Stroessner's Paraguay for opposing communism more strongly than any other nation in the world.
Laíno's charges of government corruption, involvement in narcotics trafficking, human rights violations, and inadequate financial compensation from Brazil under the terms of the Treaty of Itaipú earned him Stroessner's wrath.
Beginning in the late 1960s, the Roman Catholic Church persistently criticized Stroessner's successive extensions of his stay in office and his treatment of political prisoners.
From Stroessner's standpoint, there were ominous similarities between Somoza and himself.
Using Stroessner's National Constitution, Rodríguez orchestrated a political campaign with the Colorado Party and won the presidency in an election held on May 1989 in which the Colorado Party dominated the Congress.
Stroessner's economic policies took a middle course between social reform, desarrollismo, and laissez-faire, all in the context of patronage politics.
During Stroessner's regime, an estimated 3, 000 to 4, 000 people were murdered, and 400 to 500 more were " disappeared.
During Stroessner's rule, no Communist nations had embassies in Paraguay, with the sole exception of non-aligned Yugoslavia.
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He recalled that in California after a critic had attacked him for `` still trying to sell Bruckner to the Americans '', the public's response at the next concert was a standing ovation.
It was a response to the conflict between political pressure and the moral intuition which resulted in attempts at prediction.
Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??
But he had delayed accepting this job, and as he was leaving to come home to Papa in response to our telegram, he dropped a postcard to Miss McCrady, head of the Harvard Appointment Office, asking her please to write Northwestern authorities and explain the circumstances.
When Fosdick showed the letter to Baker his negative response was: `` For God's sake, Raymond, don't show this to the President or he'll stop the war ''.
When he was asked a question or addressed in such a way that some response was inescapable, he would answer ; ;
A fire had just been lighted, he saw, and things had been set out for drinks, and, like any stray, his response to these comforts was instantaneous.
As early as 1913 Ghoreyeb and Karsner demonstrated with perfusion studies in dogs that bronchial artery flow would remain constant at a certain low level when pressure was maintained in the pulmonary artery and vein, but that increases in bronchial artery flow would occur in response to a relative drop in pulmonary artery pressure.
There was evident delight on the part of the subject in response to her experience of the freedom of movement.
The government was most anxious that there be a respectable response.
And an additional factor was helping to make women more sexually self-assertive -- the comparatively recent discovery of the true depths of female desire and response.
Alec expected an indignant denial, but there was no response at all.
The response from London, Paris and Bonn was favorable.
Although the particular form of conceptualization which popular imagination had made in response to the experience of spirit was undoubtedly defective, the raw experience itself which led to such excesses remains with us as vividly as ever.
A few literary men defended what they took to be an emphasis on the poetry at the expense of the drama, but the response was mainly hostile and quite violent.
In law, an answer was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to someone or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defense, a reply to a question or response, or objection, or a correct solution of a problem.
In response, Swift ’ s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.
It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.
Part of this publication was the famous Five points of Calvinism in response to the five articles of Remonstrance.
Reverend James Freeman Clarke was one of Alcott's few supporters and defended him against the harsh response from Boston periodicals.
Kennedy, however, was circumspect in his response to the news, refusing to make a commitment on America's response to the Soviets.
One downside was that the new democracy was less capable of rapid response.
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