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‘Under the Flags, the Sun’ Review: Chilling Archive-Driven Doc Tracks the Rise and Fall of South America’s Longest Dictatorship

January 7, 2026

Jan 6, 2026 7:00pm PT ‘Under the Flags, the Sun’ Review: Chilling Archive-Driven Doc Tracks the Rise and Fall of South America’s Longest Dictatorship Paraguay’s revealing Oscar entry centers on the decades that Gen. Alfredo Stroessner ruled the isolated nation with an iron grip under the guise of progress and widespread prosperity. By Carlos Aguilar Plus Icon Carlos Aguilar Latest ‘Dandelion’s Odyssey’ Review: A Dialogue-Free Animated Epic Journey Floats With Wondrous Inventiveness 1 week ago ‘Cause of Death: Unknown’ Review: Iran’s Surprisingly Daring Official Oscar Entry Sees an Ensemble Cast Conflicted by a Moral Conundrum 1 week ago ‘Dust Bunny’ Review: Mads Mikkelsen Is a Reluctant Hero in Morbidly Fantastical Shoot-’em-Up 4 weeks ago See All Nestled — or hidden — in between Brazil and Argentina, the country of Paraguay is mostly absent from the global consciousness.

Under the Flags, the Sun

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An enigma of a nation for most, it bears a turbulent history not forged in isolation but as a consequence of and in conversation with global changes.
In the incisively constructed, archive-footage documentary “Under the Flag, the Sun,” filmmaker Juanjo Pereira positions his small South American homeland as a part of a larger geopolitical context by dissecting the regime of Gen.
Alfredo Stroessner.
One of the world’s longest-running dictatorships, Stroessner’s rule, under the right-wing Colorado party, began in 1954 after a military coup and only ended in 1989.
His promises of progress for the masses eventually turned into a thin veil for violence and human rights violations.

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