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‘It left a scar’ Search for dictatorship’s grim legacy

A polonia Flores drove a spade into the damp red earth, prising out a root left by a recent sugar cane crop.

This area of the Paraguayan region of Caaguazú is now open farmland, but when she was last here, in 1980, it was thick forest.

She was just 12 years old at the time – and the youngest witness of one of the from 1954 to 1989.

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