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Museo de las Memorias and its collection
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The Museo de las Memorias in Asuncion is a place of reflection and memory. It showcases paintings, graphics, and historical objects that relate to the human rights violations that took place during the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner. This period, from August 1954 to February 1989, was a time of harsh and prolonged military and repressive regime in Paraguay.
The Building's Past as a Detention Center
The Museo de las Memorias is located in a building that once served as the National Directorate of Technical Affairs (DNAT), an institution that was part of the National Security Doctrine and Operation Condor. For more than three decades, this building functioned as a detention center where thousands of opponents to Stroessner's military dictatorship were imprisoned and tortured.
The Museum's Current Role
Today, the Museo de las Memorias serves as a place of reflection, education, and memory. It supports Law 2225/03, which led to the formation of the Truth and Justice Commission in October 2003.
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