Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda was a Paraguayan army officer, politician, and dictator who served as President of Paraguay from 15 August 1954 until his overthrow from power on 3 February 1989. His rule is commonly referred inside Paraguay as El Stronato.
The National Republican Association, also known as the Colorado Party, is a conservative political party in Paraguay, founded on 11 September 1887 by Bernardino Caballero. Since 1947, the colorados, as they are known, has been dominant in Paraguayan politics and has controlled the presidency since 1948 –notwithstanding a brief interruption between 2008 and 2013– as well as having a majority in both chambers of Congress and department governorships.
Martín Almada was a Paraguayan lawyer, writer and educationalist. A noted dissident and human rights activist, he was a prisoner of the Alfredo Stroessner regime. He was notable for uncovering the Archives of Terror.
Radio Nacional del Paraguay is the public radio broadcaster of Paraguay. It is a division of the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communication alongside national public TV channel Paraguay TV. Programs are in Spanish and in the Guarani language.
Brazil–Paraguay relations are foreign relations between Brazil and Paraguay.
Epifanio Méndez Fleitas was a Paraguayan politician, musician, writer and poet, and twice the president of Central Bank of Paraguay: from 1952 to 1954 and in 1955. He fled Paraguay during the Alfredo Stroessner years and was the uncle to future President Fernando Lugo. He died in Buenos Aires.
Club Deportivo Capiatá is a Paraguayan football club based in the city of Capiatá. The club was founded on September 8, 2008 and plays in the Third División of the Paraguayan league. Their home games are played at the Estadio Lic. Erico Galeano Segovia.
Joel Holden Filártiga Ferreira was a Paraguayan doctor, artist and human rights activist. He became known for his human rights activism after his son, Joelito Filártiga, was killed by the police during the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner in 1976.
Carlos Alberto Filizzola Pallarés is a Paraguayan physician, labor unionist and politician who served as mayor of Asunción from 1991 to 1996, being the first one to be democratically elected. He later served four terms as senator, from 2003 to 2011 and again from 2012 to 2023, having been appointed Minister of the Interior in the meantime, under the presidency of Fernando Lugo. He was also the President of the Senate from 2005 to 2006 and the running mate of Domingo Laíno in the 1998 presidential election.
Sistema Nacional de Televisión, sometimes simply known as SNT, is a Paraguayan television network which reaches almost the entire population of Paraguay. SNT coverage almost all the Región Oriental, where approximately 97% of the population of Paraguay lives. Currently it has 11 repeaters.
The dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner, colloquially known as Stronismo or Stronato, was the period of almost 35 years in the history of Paraguay in which army general Alfredo Stroessner ruled the country as a de facto one-party state under an authoritarian military dictatorship, from 15 August 1954 to 3 February 1989.
La Tribuna was one of the most important daily newspapers in Paraguay's history. It was founded in 1925 in Asunción by Eduardo Schaerer, and was the country's leading newspaper for five decades. La Tribuna was the first Paraguayan paper to be widely published across the country. Politically, La Tribuna was positioned between liberalism and traditional national politics. It opposed especially the dictatorial regimes of Higinio Morínigo and Alfredo Stroessner. During these dictatorial regimes, the editors became the target of persecution. Their crusade in favor of the Free Press in Paraguay gained attention abroad. In 1953, the newspaper's director, Arturo Schaerer, received the María Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University.
Trece is a Paraguayan free-to-air television network launched in 1981. It is the head station of the JBB Group, which as of 11 January 2016 adopted this name. Channel 13 was the second television station to start nationwide broadcasts, after SNT, the first to broadcast entirely in color and the fourth television station to be set up in Paraguay overall including SNT's two inland affiliates that started shortly before Channel 13's operations started. In the 2010s, the channel changed owners twice eventually becoming a sister channel to Unicanal, and for a brief period between 2016 and 2019, it was known as RPC.
Carmen Casco de Lara Castro was a Paraguayan teacher, women's and human rights advocate, and politician. She established one of the first independent human rights organizations in Latin America and fought for both women's equality and an end to state-sponsored terrorism under the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner. She was influential in passing legislation for pay equity and maternity rights, as well as securing the repeal of laws curtailing basic human rights.
Alcibiades González Delvalle is a Paraguayan journalist, playwright, essayist, and novelist. He won the Paraguayan National Prize for Literature in 2013 with his novel Un viento negro. In 2016 he was named a member of the Paraguayan Academy of the Spanish Language.
Mario Abdo Benítez is a Paraguayan politician who served as the 51st president of Paraguay from 2018 to 2023. He was previously a senator and served as president of the Senate of Paraguay from 2015 to 2016.
The Marzo paraguayo was a political crisis that occurred in Paraguay because of the assassination of the then-Vice President Luis María Argaña on 23 March 1999. The opposition blamed the then-President, Raúl Cubas Grau, and also the strongman of Paraguayan politics of that time, Lino Oviedo, for the assassination. Argaña's assassination provoked a series of demonstrations by opponents and supporters to Oviedo and the Cubas government, which culminated in clashes in which seven demonstrators opposed to the government died, which resulted in the resignation of Cubas from the presidency.
Silvana López Moreira Bó is a former First Lady of Paraguay, from 15 August 2018 to 15 August 2023, due to her marriage to President Mario Abdo Benítez. With López Moreira, the office of First Lady was reopened in Paraguay after a vacant period, since the previous President, Horacio Cartes, ordered its closure due to being divorced.
The Coordinación de Mujeres del Paraguay is a network of feminist organisations in Paraguay. The CMP was founded in 1987 or 1988.
Mabel Rehnfeldt is a Paraguayan reporter and editor for ABC Digital–ABC Color.
