General Alfred Stroessner, who died in 2006, was dictator of which country?
Alfredo Stroessner reason Stroessner did not have absolute control over the country. After the destruction of Asunción University in 1972 by police, the Archbishop of Paraguay Ismael Rolón Silvero excommunicated the minister of the interior and the chief of police, and proscribed the celebration of Holy Mass in a sign of protest against the Stroessner regime. When Pope John Paul II visited Paraguay in 1988, his visit bolstered what was already a robust anti-Stroessner movement within the country. Stroessner gave a written television interview to Alan Whicker as part of a documentary called "The Last Dictator" (UK: April 7, 1970) for the
Alfredo Stroessner did not launch the coup. The two generals, Rodríguez and Oviedo, fought a brief artillery duel over Asunción. After the coup, Stroessner fled to Brazil, where he lived in exile for the next 17 years. The eastern city of Puerto Flor de Lis, which had been renamed Puerto Presidente Stroessner in his honor, in 1989 was again renamed Ciudad del Este. Asunción's airport had been named after him during his regime, but was later renamed Silvio Pettirossi International Airport. Stroessner died on August 16, 2006, in Brasília, at the age of 93. The immediate cause of death was a stroke.