Former Paraguayan Dictator Alfredo Stroessner Is Hospitalized
Yvonne Lee - All Headline News Staff Reporter Brasilia, Brazil (AHN) - Former dictator of Paraguay, Alfredo Stroessner, is in critical but stable condition in a Brazilian hospital. The 93-year-old ruled the country for 35 years until he was ousted in 1989 and subsequently exiled. Doctors say Stroessner has suffered from lung problems since undergoing a hernia operation on July 29. Additional details were not available. Gabriela Nagel, a press officer at the Santa Luzia hospital, says, "He's alive and remains in intensive care." In 1954, then Gen. Stroessner took power during a coup. Paraguay had been struggling under years of instability and dozens of leaders since 1870. Former military colleagues ousted Stroessner in 1989. By that time, he had been in power longer than any contemporary leader in the Western Hemisphere. He was granted political asylum in Brazil, where he has lived a life of isolation. Paraguayan judicial authorities have tried to bring Stroessner back to the country to answer for the disappearance of political prisoners in the 1970s.
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