Juan Carlos Da Costa
Juan Carlos Da Costa( born 1944 in Asunción, Paraguay) was a writer, politician, activist and leader of the OPM( Political Military Organization) clandestine movement, created in the mid 1970s, against General Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship.
He died fighting the police, on 3 April 1976.
Bai Xingjian
Bai Xingjian( 776–826) was a fiction writer and poet in imperial China's Tang Dynasty.
He was a younger brother of the famed poet Bai Juyi.
One of his most famous works is the novella" The Tale of Li Wa".
It has been translated into English many times:
It was also translated into many other languages, for example German by Franz Kuhn and French by André Lévy.
Andrés Rodríguez (politician)
Andrés Rodríguez Pedotti( June 19, 1923 – April 21, 1997) was the President of Paraguay from February 3, 1989 to August 15, 1993.
He assumed the presidency in a coup d'état against 35- year dictator Alfredo Stroessner.
Epifanio Méndez Fleitas
Epifanio Méndez Fleitas( 7 April 1917 – 22 November 1985) was a Paraguayan musician, writer and poet, and the former president of Paraguay's central bank.
He fled Paraguay during the Alfredo Stroessner years and is related to President Fernando Lugo.
He died in Buenos Aires.
Alfredo Stroessner
Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda (November 3, 1912 – August 16, 2006) was a Paraguayan Army officer who served as President of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989.
He ascended to the position after leading an army coup in 1954.
His 35-year-long rule, marked by an uninterrupted period of repression in his country, is the longest in modern South American history.
Stroessner's rule is ranked 20th-longest among non-royal national leaders since 1900 and made him one of the world's longest-serving non-royal heads of state.
In 1954, he ousted Federico Chávez, becoming president after winning an election in which he was the sole candidate.
As an anti-communist, Stroessner had the backing of the United States for most of his time in power.
His supporters packed the legislature and ran the courts, and he ruthlessly suppressed all opposition.
He kept his country in what he called a constant "state of siege" that overruled civil liberties, enforced a cult of personality, and tortured and killed political opponents.
Membership in his Colorado Party was a prerequisite for job promotion, free medical care and other services.
The constitution had to be modified in 1967 and 1977 to legitimize his six consecutive elections to the presidency.
Stroessner provided exile for Argentina's Juan Perón and Nicaragua's Anastasio Somoza Debayle (later assassinated in Paraguay).
In 1988, he won an unprecedented eighth term on a majority, according to official figures, of over 89 percent of the registered vote.
Less than a year later, he was overthrown in a military "coup d'état" led by his former confidant, General Andrés Rodríguez, and forced into exile in Brazil, where he spent the last 17 years of his life.
Following a bout of pneumonia, he tried to return to his homeland to die, but was rejected by the government.
He died in Brasília on August 16, 2006, of complications from a hernia operation.
Carmen Soler
Carmen Soler( 1924–1985) was a Paraguayan educator, poet and member of the Paraguayan Communist Party.
She was born in Asuncion on August 4, 1924 and died in Buenos Aires on November 19, 1985.
She was imprisoned and exiled several times for fighting against the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner.
Joel Filártiga
Joel Holden Filártiga Ferreira( 15 August 1932 – 5 July 2019) was a Paraguayan doctor, artist and human rights activist.
He became known for his human rights activism after his son, Joelito Filártiga, who was killed by the police during the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner in 1976.
André Lévy (sinologist)
André Lévy( 24 November 1925 – 3 October 2017) was a French sinologist.
He was born in 1925 in Tianjin.
He translated many Chinese works of fiction into French.
Martín Almada
Martín Almada( born 30 January 1937) is a lawyer, writer and educationalist from Paraguay.
A noted dissident and human rights activist, he was a prisoner of the Alfredo Stroessner regime.
André Lévy
André Lévy may refer to:

Question: Did Alfredo Stroessner and André Lévy (Sinologist) share the same nationality?
Answer: no