http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/stroessner_3834.jsp Comments for "Alfredo Stroessner: revisiting the general, Isabel Hilton " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/stroessner_3834.jsp Alfredo Stroessner ruled Paraguay with an iron fist from 1954 to 1989. On 16 August 2006, the general died in lonely exile in Brazil, where he found asylum seventeen years ago after being ousted in a coup. He didn't grant interviews, but made an exception for Isabel Hilton. Here are excerpts from that interview, "The General", first published in Granta magazine in April 1990.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/stroessner_3834.jsp" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/stroessner_3834.jsp">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/stroessner_3834.jsp#comment democracy &amp; power Isabel Hilton Original Copyright politics of protest the americas Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0100 3834 at http://www.opendemocracy.net