The World - News from Sept. 25, 1987
U.S. Ambassador Clyde D. Taylor Jr. has been accused of interfering in Paraguay’s internal affairs, and a senior official of the ruling Colorado Party said he may be expelled for allegedly attempting to bring down the government of President Alfredo Stroessner. “We are warning this diplomat that if he persists in his keenness to bring down Stroessner’s government, his days in our glorious Paraguay are numbered,” said Modesto Esquivel, a member of the party’s governing board. The U.S. State Department has strongly complained to Paraguay over what it called a rising scale of repression against political dissidents and the press.
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