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| Bishop provide San Pedro | | Church | Roman Catholic Church |
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| In Office | 5 March 1994 – 11 January 2005  • The Priest of Paraguay: Fernando Lugo and the Making of a NationAugust 17, 2014 A short biography of Fernando Lugo, the president of Paraguay. From his humble origins as a Catholic priest to join the ranks of the leftist bloc of Latin American leaders as president of his native land. It is quite a short book and easy to digest. One of the main themes is the constant problems with the catholic church when it comes to progressive leadership, John XXIII aside who promoted the Vatican II reforms in Latin America. It was published in 2009 but was only able to fit the recent revelations about Lugo’s illegitimate children in to the epilogue which is unfortunate as this may have struck a slightly different tone to the overall nature of the text, if not the man since you private life should not delineate your professional ability. What comes through in the book is Lugo’s desire to improve the lot of the poor in one of the poorest countries in South America and the usual nasty tactics on the side of the right to halt any progressive agenda, seen in Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela and most extremely Haiti. After the military dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner fell and 60 years of one party rule came to an end the change to a true progressive democrat Frenando Lugo was necessary and • These pages of the country’s history perhaps are the least studied and analyzed.
Indeed, among the most well-known Nazis that fled to Paraguay was the SS murderer Josef Mengele who performed deadly experiments on prisoners in Auschwitz. Another Nazi who found shelter in Paraguay was Hans Rudel, a famous pilot who was very close to the Führer himself. Ther was as well Eduard Roschmann, called the Butcher of Riga for his atrocities in the getto. Roschmann died in Paraguayan capital, Asunción, in 1977. These war criminals received official and explicit protection during Alfredo Stroessner’s dictatorship in 1954−1989.
Although it is not possible to assert that Stroessner’s dictatorship was openly Nazi, it can be undoubtedly confirmed that during his administration, by means of Operation Condor, full-scale crimes were committed, as in other regional dictatorships in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Bolivia. Dictators there showed their true face and their fascist nature upon carrying out mass murder of political, social, ideological and cultural dissidents.
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Nowadays, when Nazism and fascism as we know them from the history, ha
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