Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda (also Strössner or Strößner; November 3 1912 – August 16 2006) was a Paraguayan military officer who served as President of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989. He ascended to the position after leading an army coup in 1954. His 35-year long rule marked by an uninterrupted period of repression in his country was the longest unbroken rule by one individual in the history of South America.
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