(15 Aug 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Asuncion, Paraguay – 15 August 2024
1. Various of people marching in Asunción chanting UPSOUND (Spanish) "dictatorship never again"
2. Demonstrators hold a sign that reads (Spanish) "dictatorship never again"
3. SOUNDBITE (Guaraní) Benicia Chávez, demonstrator:
"If there had been no dictatorship, there would not be a small group that benefits by ripping millions at the expense of the people, while the people are abandoned to their fate."
4. Demonstrators marching
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Asunción, Paraguay. 14 August 2024
5. Milda Rivarola, historian, holding a photograph of late dictator Alfredo Stroessner
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Milda Rivarola, historian:
"What came after Stroesner is similar to what happened in the countries of the former Soviet Union, that the same party that governed under the Soviet order changed its name and continued to govern. The same thing happened here; the party that governed in the Stroesner regime continues to govern until now, always."
7. Representation of a tortured person with a photo of Stroessner in the background at the Memory Museum
8. Photographs of detainees who disappeared during the dictatorship at the Memory Museum
9. Police file of a person who was killed during the dictatorship which says (Spanish) "observation: communist leadership"
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Emilio Barreto, victim and relative of a missing person:
"My wife (Nimia Baez) at that time was already 2 months pregnant. She lost because of torture, what could have been her first child, in the pool, they call it pool. A bathtub filled with water and where they submerged her."
11. Emilio Barreto holds a copy of his police record
PARAGUAY MINISTRY OF JUSTICE
Caaguasu, Paraguay – December 2022
12. Various of anthropologists searching for the remains of people who were disappeared during the dictatorship
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Asunción, Paraguay. 14 August 2024
13 SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rogelio Goiburú, son of a missing person and director of Memory Museum:
"Governments take turns over time, this model of democracy allows governments to take turns, but up to now there is no policy of human rights clarification, there is no policy of memory, and that is why we must continue."
16. Victims and relatives of the dictatorship meet at the Disappeared Square
17. Remains of a statue of Stroessner was turned into a monument at the Disappeared Square
18. The feet of the Stroessner statue remain where a massive statue of Stroessner once stood overlooking the Paraguay River ++MUTE++
STORYLINE:
In a rare eruption of public outrage on Thursday, hundreds of protesters streamed through downtown Asunción, Paraguay, raising their fists and chanting, “Never again, dictatorship.”
Demonstrators are concerned about a democratic backslide during the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the longest-ruling dictatorship in Latin America, led by Gen. Alfredo Stroessner.
Stroessner seized power in Paraguay in a 1954 coup and secured the virtually uninterrupted dominance of his conservative Colorado party for decades.
Those who pushed the painful process of democratization after Stroessner’s downfall said they believed their country was on the upswing, that its civic institutions were getting stronger.
Victims of the dictatorship argue that the government has not really reckoned with or redressed Stroessner’s legacy in Paraguay.
A government spokesperson and Colorado party members did not respond to questions from The Associated Press.
Cartes denies the allegations.
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