During a visit to the hydroelectric power plant Itaipú, together with Paraguay’s president Mario Abdo Benítez – whose father for a time, was stroessner’s personal secretary, said Bolsonaro that Stroessner was a statesman who knew what he wanted and celebrated him for the construction of the power plant.
General Stroessner ruled the country with an iron fist between 1954 and 1989. He then went into exile after a coup and he died in Brazil in 2006.
The huge plant, which is located at the paraná river on the border between the countries, was inaugurated in 1984.
