Volume 22, Number 15 · October 2, 1975
Dictatorship with Charm
By E.J. Hobsbawm
To most people who have heard of it at all, or do not confuse it with Uruguay, the word 'Paraguay' is associated with fascism: a place in the sun for fugitive Nazi leaders and the domain (since 1954) of General Alfredo Stroessner, longest-lived and most right-wing of Latin American dictators. It may perhaps also suggest a rather attractive kind of folk music.
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