From 1954 Paraguay was held in the grip of a Right-wing dictatorship
under General Alfredo Stroessner. In the years that followed, a number
of opposition groups resorted to armed struggle in order to achieve
their aims. Government countermeasures were brutal, with torture and
extra-judicial killings being routinely employed.
COIN Operations in Paraguay is the first detailed English-language
account of these armed opposition groups, their aims, their structures
and their campaigns against the Stroessner government. It also details
the ruthless government reaction and the support and opposition of other
Latin American governments to the situation in Paraguay at this time. In
addition to these conflicts within Paraguay, the 1980 assassination on
Paraguayan soil of Anastasio Somoza Debayle, the exiled last dictator of
Nicaragua, is examined in detail.
COIN Operations in Paraguay includes over 190 photographs and 18
specially commission full-color artworks.