Seven Lebanese and Brazilian nationals who had been suspected of links to bombings of Jewish buildings in Buenos Aires are suing the Paraguayan government because of their recent extradition to Argentina. The seven – six Lebanese and one Brazilian – were extradited from Paraguay on July 23 in connection with an investigation into illegal stocks… More ▸
Investigators searching for the perpetrators of two recent anti-Semitic terrorist attacks in Argentina are focusing their efforts on Ciudad del Este, a Paraguayan border crossing long known as Latin America’s contraband capital. The town, whose commerce is dominated by Arabs, may also be a hotbed of support for Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed and Lebanese-based terrorist group… More ▸
The recently elected president of Paraguay has promised to allow researchers from the World Jewish Congress to inspect governmental archives on Nazi fugitives who found haven in Paraguay following World War II. President Juan Carlos Wasmosy told WJC President Edgar Bronfman during an hour-long meeting at WJC headquarters here last week that the organization could… More ▸
Nazi war criminal Martin Bormann died in Paraguay in 1959, according to files of the Paraguayan police that were recently discovered and made public. The finding, if accurate, challenges a widespread belief that Bormann, who was one of Adolf Hitler’s top aides, committed suicide in Berlin in 1945. A report in the police files said… More ▸
On the heels of the Justice Department’s announcement that another former Nazi collaborator had deported himself to Paraguay, the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith reported from there that its provisional president has pledged “immediate efforts to locate, arrest and expel Nazi war criminals living in the country.” General Andres Rodriguez made the promise in a… More ▸
A former Nazi collaborator who lived in the United States for 40 years deported himself to Paraguay in December, according to the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations. George Theodorovich, 66, who lived in Troy, N.Y., obtained a safe-conduct pass from the Paraguayan consul general in New York City on Dec. 6, 1988. It was… More ▸
Serge Kowalchuk, an alleged Nazi during World War II who has been convicted of lying about his past on his request for an American visa and later citizenship, failed to appear at a deportation hearing here Friday. His attorney divulged that he has fled to Paraguay to avoid the possibility of being returned to face… More ▸
Paraguay’s strongman, Gen. Alfredo Stroessner, has ordered an end to a wave of anti-Semitic outbursts which had swept his country in recent weeks, the World Jewish Congress reported. “There is not nor will there be anti-Semitism in Paraguay, “the General stated in letter to WJC president Edgar Bronfman. Stroessner’s letter was in reply to a… More ▸
B’nai B’rith International, alarmed by a wave of virulent anti-Semitism sweeping Paraguay, has sent an urgent cable of protest to President Alfredo Stroessner urging his government “to act officially and decisively” to stem the tide of bigotry. The message, signed by BBI president Seymour Reich, noted that Jews are being attacked in the media and… More ▸
A sense of the Congress resolution calling on Paraguay to launch an “immediate investigation” into the whereabouts of Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele was passed unanimously last week by the Senate. The resolution urges the Paraguayan government to ascertain whether the notorious Nazi fugitive is still living in the South American country of which he… More ▸
