Background[]
General Stroessner, governed Paraguay with an iron fist from 1954 to 1989. Dissidents, liberals, trades unionist, supposed and actual subversives, many workers who went on strike and lefty Latin Americans were in his mind his, and by extension, Paraguay's sworn political enemies. His regime killed, exiled, repressed, 'disappeared', jailed and tortured thousands. Ironically the regime may have been involved in contraband an drug trafficking. Much is still to be uncovered about the regime's rampant political clientelism, corruption and it's theft of billion dollars from the state coffers.
The event and locations involved[]
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower Sent Colonel Robert Thierry to ‘la Técnica’ to teach them American torture techniques.
The climax was after rise of Gen. Pinochet in Chile, who came to power in Chile between 1972 and 1990. He organised the repressive regional Operation Condor plot.
La Técnica was upgraded from a blood stained hovel in to a proper torture centre by the USA in the early 1980s.
The “archives of terror” that officially revealed the events were uncovered in a police station in the Lambaré suburb of Asunción.
The locations were-
- El Monasterio on the border with Bolivia.
- La Técnica, Asunción. It was by far the biggest and cruellest.
- Police stations.
- Military bases.
- Many small, random ad-hock units.
Legacy[]
Paraguay's ‘Museum of Memory, the Dictatorship and Democracy’ is in the place where the intelligence body Dirección Nacional de Asuntos Técnicos, (AKA- ‘la Técnica’), ran a covertly major torture centre in a Asunción suburb between 1956 and 1989.
Operation Condor claimed the lives of nearly 100,000 people in the region.
10,000s of dissidents, liberals, trades union and lefty Latin Americans who were kidnapped, tortured and killed by the security forces of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
The forced disappearance of 900, the torture of 1,000, and the exile of nearly 1,000,000 people.
Also see[]
- Paraguay
- The Cold War
- South America
- Dujail Massacre
- A political diorama
- Halabja chemical attack
- Saddam's Torture Palace
- Cambodia's Killing Fields
- Dozier Florida School for Boys
- Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation
| Latin American juntas and dictatorships! (1944-1992) | |
|---|---|
| Operation Condor, Operation PBFortune
and other black-opps |
Black-opps - Operation PBFortune - special-opps- Operation Condor- American collusion in Operation Condor- French collusion in Operation Condor- Argentina's "Dirty War" - Operation Soberanía - La Violencia - Colombian conflict (1964–present) - Peruvian conflict - United States involvement in regime change in Latin America - 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état - United States invasion of Panama - Panamanian 'Dignity Battalions' - Port Belgrano Naval Base |
| Systems of state repression | The "La Técnica" torture center - Dirección Nacional de Asuntos Técnicos - Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) - Panamanian 'Dignity Battalions' - Death flight - Political disappearances |
| The ones who tried to get nukes | Brazil (failed) - Chile (failed) - Argentina (failed) - Cuba (gave them up) - Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Economics | Paving the Quito-Tulcán road in the early 1970s - Argentine Cold War era hyper inflation- Brazil's development of the Amazon region in the 1970s- Transamazon Highway (BR-230) (the 1970s part) |
| Politics and Geo-politics | Falklands sovereignty dispute - 1982 Falklands War - Cold War - Operation Soberanía - Beagle conflict - Snipe incident - United States invasion of Panama - 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties |
| Technology | Alacrán (Condor IAIII) missile - The Condor and Alacrán missile programs - El Torero Enojado (fake aircraft) - FMA IA 58 Pucará - FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II |
| People | General Augusto Pinochet - Alfredo Stroessner - Jorge Rafael Videla - Guillermo Rodríguez (politician) - Leopoldo Galtieri - Juan Domingo Perón -Gustavo Rojas Pinilla- Luis García Meza Tejada - Juan María Bordaberry - Marcos Pérez Jiménez - Manuel Apolinario Odría - João Goulart -Dwight D. Eisenhower - Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno - Anastasio Somoza García - Rafael Trujillo - Fulgencio Batista - Fidel Castro - Carlos Castillo Armas - Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes - Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North - Omar Torrijos - Anastasio Somoza Debayle - Luis Somoza Debayle - General Oswaldo López Arellano - (General Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García - General Romeo Lucas García - General Carlos Humberto Romero |
| Important places | The "La Técnica" torture center - Port Belgrano Naval Base |
| Wars and civil wars | Colombian conflict (1964–present) - Peruvian conflict - Contras - Sandinistas - Operation Soberanía - Argentina's "Dirty War" - 1982 Falklands War - Operation Soberanía - Beagle conflict - Snipe incident - La guerra del fútbol - Guatemalan Civil War - Salvadoran Civil War - Guerrilla Army of the Poor - 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution |
| Other stuff | 601 Commando Company - 602 Commando Company - 601 Air Assault Regiment - 5th Marine Battalion (Argentina) - Guatemalan genocide against the Maya - Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation |
Sources[]
- http://motherearthtravel.com/history/paraguay/history-7.htm
- http://www.ipsnews.net/2006/08/paraguay-stroessners-death-closes-dark-chapter-of-history/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Stroessner
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archives_of_Terror
- http://paraguayinformationinfrastructure.weebly.com/archives-of-terror.html
- http://nationalgeographic.org/thisday/dec22/archives-terror-discovered/
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1866517.stm
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archives_of_Terror