History of Paraguay History of Paraguay This is the history of Paraguay. See also the history of South America and the history of present-day nations and states. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of Paraguay"
Operation Condor ( Spanish:Operación Cóndor, Portuguese:Operação Condor) was a campaign of assassination and intelligence-gathering, dubbed counter-terrorism, conducted jointly by the intelligence and security services of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay in the mid-1970s, as its main participants. Other countries such as Colombia, Peru and Venezuela also cooperated, to a greater or lesser degree, by providing intelligence information, responding to requests from the security services of the Southern Cone countries. The United States provided assistance with "a communications installation in the Panama Canal Zone" acknowledged by a cable released in 2000 under Chile declassification project. Kenneth Maxwell review of Peter Kornbluh's book The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, in Foreign Affairs November/December 2003, pinpointed Henry Kissinger's influence in Operation Condor. Nearly ten nations of the American continent participated in the brutal campaign. ...more on Wikipedia about "Operation Condor"
The peso was the currency of Paraguay until 1944. It was divided into 100 centavos. The peso was replaced in 1944 by the guaraní at a rate of one hundred to one. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paraguayan peso"
The Revolt of the Comuneros is a series uprisings by settlers in Paraguay against the Spanish authorities lasting from 1721 to 1732. Underlying causes were economic, but also issues of freedom and self-government. It is one of the first uprisings against Spanish colonial rule. ...more on Wikipedia about "Revolt of the Comuneros (Paraguay)"
Robert White served as U.S. ambassador under different administrations. In 1980-81, he was posted in El Salvador during the first years of that country's brutal 12-year civil war. He was harshly critical of the Salvadoran government, and accused the military and paramilitaries (widely alleged to have close ties) of committing widespread atrocities against civilians, many of which were later factually confirmed. At one time, he described prominent military figure Roberto D'Aubuisson, widely suspected of collaboration with death squad killings including the assassination of FMLN-sympathizing Roman Catholic Archbishop Óscar Romero, as a "pathological killer." ...more on Wikipedia about "Robert White (ambassador)"
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