Template:Did you know nominations/Carmen Casco de Lara Castro


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 13:08, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Carmen Casco de Lara Castro

 * ... that Carmen Casco de Lara Castro resigned from the Paraguayan Chamber of Deputies to protest a dictator's unlimited term of office and was reelected as a Senator when he was removed from power? Source: p 290 (farewell speech to Congress on December 15, 1977, following the decision to abstain from the elections in protest of a Constitutional Amendment which permitted unlimited reelection of Stroessner) and  "'Coca' fue electa senadora en las elecciones de mayo de 1989" (Coca was elected Senator in the May 1989 elections).
 * ALT1:... that Carmen Casco de Lara Castro, founder of one of the first human rights organizations in Latin America, was arrested, denied a passport and monitored by the Stroessner regime? Source: p 290 ("She founded the Commission for the Defence of Human Rights in Paraguay, one of the first independent human rights organizations in Latin America...Suffering repeated arrest and physical abuse from government authorities" and  ("Her telephone calls are monitored. For five years she couldn’t get a Paraguayan passport…")
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/William Lyde Wiggett Chute

Improved to Good Article status by SusunW (talk) and Ipigott. Self-nominated at 07:07, 19 June 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Hooks (both of them) are neutral and referenced in the article. Second one is more interesting. Date (recent GA), and other DYK criteria including QPQ review met. GTG. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 13:47, 19 June 2018 (UTC)