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Friday, October 31, 2008
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Natalia Ruiz Díaz
ASUNCIÓN, Oct 31 (IPS) – The discovery Friday of new archives from the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner is expected to shed new light on the regime that ruled Paraguay from 1954 to 1989.
Identity cards and folders full of photographs and information on former political prisoners were found in the basement of a building in downtown Asunción that belonged to the Interior Ministry.
The discovery was made possible by a tip-off from a former military cadet who served in the Interior Ministry under Stroessner.
Local human rights activist Martín Almada, who uncovered the so-called ”Archives of Terror” in 1992, said the man who provided the information used to take meals to political prisoners held in the basement, which was used as a torture chamber by then interior minister Sabino Augusto Montanaro, a key member of Stroessner’s inner circle who is now living in Honduras, where he was granted political asylum.
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