The "La Técnica" torture center

General Stroessner, who governed Paraguay with an iron fist from 1954 to 1989.

Paraguy's ‘Museum of Memory, the Dictatorship and Democracy’ is in the place where the Dirección Nacional de Asuntos Técnicos, (AKA- ‘la Técnica’), ran a covertly torture centre. starting in 1956, with support from the United States,”

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