Ex-Paraguayan Officer Gets Asylum in Spain
Associated Press
MADRID —
A former Paraguayan army captain described by human rights groups as one of Latin America’s longest-held political prisoners arrived here Friday to receive political asylum.
Napoleon Ortigoza, 56, was freed last December after serving a 25-year prison term in the 1962 slaying of army cadet Alberto Benitez. He had been under house arrest since his release but was allowed to leave Wednesday for Argentina after spending 83 days in the Colombian Embassy in Asuncion, the Paraguayan capital.
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