TERROR ARCHIVES AND STRONISMO: MEMORY, HISTORY AND LUTE

The objective of this study was to analyze the importance of "Terror Archives" stored in the Center for Documentation and Archives, located in the Supreme Court of Justice of Paraguay. This Center was created to store information connected to the Defense of Human Rights (CDyA), so to rescue the historical memory of "stronismo" and to the knowledge of cases of kidnapping, imprisonment and torture of children and adolescents during the Paraguayan dictatorship of General Alfredo Stroessner. The methodology was the bibliographical and documentary research, the last was based on the investigation of sources and evidence from diverse backgrounds: official documents, military documents and testimony from victims and relatives of missing persons provided by the Commission de Verdad y Justicia Paraguay. The central argument of this research consists in the assertion that the Terror Archives, containing systematic records of cases ofhuman rights violations in Paraguay and the Southern Cone contributed to the rescue of the historical memory of the Paraguayan dictatorship period. The analysis of this documentation allowed reconstruct the memory of the recent past whose memories and testimonies were constantly challenged in court.