Alfredo Stroessner Quotes
We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay.
Stroessner, Alfredo. Interview. The New York Times, Mar. 1989.
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Dulles lied to Congress. The CIA at the time was supplying planes and American pilots in support of an anti-Sukarno Government faction that was in armed revolt. It is not clear whether or not Dulles knew the truth when he had so testified.
This principle of support of Administration foreign policy (even if opposed) when abroad had an enormous influence on both political parties behavior for almost half a century. It began to fall apart with the hyperpartisanship that the Republican’s deep enmity to Democratic President Bill Clinton, and this was retaliated against be some Democrats during the George W. Bush Presidency. It completely disintegrated with the antipathy many very conservative Republicans had against President Barack Obama in the early 21st century. See {633113} for the Senator’s elaboration on the meaning of the policy.
The plan was to have an American agent with a few marines make an alliance with a rival to the throne of Algiers and depose the existing ruler with American “special forces”.
The “proofs” were diplomatic assurances—treaties—that England would guarantee the territorial integrity of Belgium. The British made strong diplomatic efforts to persuade Germany not to occupy Belgium. The German’s none the less send armies in under the excuse that if they did not, the French would occupy the country and have a strategic advantage over them. Diplomacy could do no more good. England had to send troops or renege on its obligations. So England was in WWI.
Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda was a Paraguayan Army officer who was the dictator of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989. He ascended to the position after leading an army coup in 1954. His 35-year-long rule, marked by an uninterrupted period of repression in his country, is the longest in modern South American history.
