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The pope in Paraguay: 'don't be afraid'.

Publication: National Catholic Reporter
Publication Date: 13-MAY-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The pope in Paraguay: 'don't be afraid'.(COMMENTARY)

Article Excerpt
Amid all the attention afforded Pope John Paul II's contributions to the fall of communism, his pivotal role in ending smaller totalitarian regimes has received far less fanfare. As the pope fades from the news cycle into the history books, his support for less geopolitically important countries like Paraguay has been all but forgotten on the world stage.

The Paraguayan people, however, will never forget.

When the pope went to Paraguay in 1988--the first time any pontiff had ever visited this impoverished South American nation--General Alfredo Stroessner had been in power for 34 years, one of the longest-running military dictatorships in modern history. A papal visit to such a small and overwhelmingly Catholic country was an event of historic magnitude. As it turned out, the Paraguayan people were ready; their government was not.

The lolling kleptocracy that was Paraguay under Gen. Stroessner was a textbook definition of...

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