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Article: Paraguay's records of terror still held by ruling party after 54 years.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- February 15, 2001
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ASUNCION, Paraguay _ In a musty, water-stained office in Paraguay's main Justice building, thousands of documents from the darkest days of former dictator Gen. Alfredo Stroessner's 35-year reign are rotting.
In most Latin countries nowadays, such an archive would be well-preserved grist for numerous lawsuits brought by a former dictator's victims or their survivors. But in Paraguay, "There has never been the will to look back and ask what happened," said Alfredo Boccia Paz, an activist who is studying the "Terror Archives."
In Paraguay, the fox guards the henhouse: Stroessner's Colorado Party, still in power after 54 years, runs the country like a ...