Size: 57.5x40cm./22.6×15.7inch.
Year: 1970

Poster made in a unknown country in support of the people of Paraguay during the Stroessner dictatorship. Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda was a Paraguayan army officer, politician, and dictator who led an authoritarian government in Paraguay from 15 August 1954 to 3 February 1989.
Stroessner led a coup d’état on 4 May 1954. He officially assumed the presidency on 15 August 1954, quickly suspended constitutional and civil rights, and began a period of harsh repression with the support of the army and the military police against any political party or person who opposed his dictatorship. On 25 August 1967, he introduced a new constitution enabling him to re-elect himself; in 1977 he modified that constitution to permit himself to be re-elected indefinitely. He was fraudulently re-elected seven times from 1958 until 1988; approximately six months after the 1988 election, he was overthrown in the coup d’état of 2 and 3 February 1989, led by his most trusted confidant, Major General Andrés Rodríguez Pedotti, with the support of the army. On 5 February 1989, shortly after the coup, Stroessner was exiled to Brazil, where he spent his last 17 years. He died on 16 August 2006 from complications of illness.