Paraguayans’ mission to search for loved ones feels less visible and more challenging than others in Latin America.

Natalia Edith Gonzalez is accused of dressing in a nurse's uniform and face mask in a hospital in Asuncion, Paraguay, before stealing a newborn baby girl. She was arrested just metres from the Argenti

Federico Tatter, whose father was detained and disappeared in Argentina in 1976 during Paraguay's Stroessner dictatorship, gives an interview at his home in Asuncion, Paraguay, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024.

President Javier Milei says he would leave Mercosur if necessary to cement a free-trade agreement with the United States.

In Peru, out of 20,000 disappeared people, only 3,200 remains have been found. In Colombia, five decades of war left a staggering death toll and more than 124,000 people missing. Paraguay’s dictatorship left a smaller number of disappeared (500 people), but only 15 bodies have been recovered.

Despite being ousted in 1989 after a 35-year reign of terror, during which 20,000 people were tortured, executed or disappeared, some Paraguayans feel as if Gen. Alfredo Stroessner never truly left.