---
category: "Other"
tags:
  - Person
  - Politician
  - Israel
  - Military
summary: "Daughter of General Andres Rodriguez and daughter-in-law of Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner, linking two prominent Latin American authoritarian dynasties."
relations:
  - type: relative_of
    with: "[[Andres Rodriguez]]"
    role: "daughter"
    fn: 1
  - type: relative_of
    with: "[[Alfredo Stroessner]]"
    role: "daughter-in-law"
    fn: 1
updated: 2026-10-28
---

[[Marta Stroessner]] is the daughter of [[Andres Rodriguez|General Andres Rodriguez]] and was married to the second son of [[Alfredo Stroessner|President Alfredo Stroessner]] of [[Paraguay]]. She was having an affair with the second son of [[Anastasio Somoza Debayle|Anastasio Somoza]], the overthrown president of [[Nicaragua]], who was living in [[Asuncion]] at the time.[^1]

### Footnotes
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. Sheridan Square Press, 1992 (TrineDay reprint, 2015).