Complex sentence: Plagued by morbid obesity that caused many of his metabolic and cardiovascular complications, he died September 19,2000, still a symbol of the political repression that characterized Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship.
Split into simpler sentences: Plagued by morbid obesity that caused many of his metabolic and cardiovascular complications, he died September 19 of 2000. He died being a symbol of the political repression that characterized Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship.