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Paraguay was an underpopulated backwater the size of California, with a penchant for wars that would swallow its male population in battles of dubious, if operatic, purpose. Among the worst was a disastrous war Paraguay waged simultaneously against Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil from 1865 to 1870, which shrank its population from 525,000 to 221,000 and left the nation with only 28,000 men.
1 de mar. de 1989 · Contrary to most predictions, General Alfredo Stroessner's 35-year rule as dictator of land-locked Paraguay ended abruptly in a violent coup d'état. The world had become so accustomed to the taciturn and repressive ruler that it was generally assumed he would escape the fate of his fellow despots in the western hemisphere-Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua, Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican ...
Jose Gaspar Rodriguez Francia. Dictator of Paraguay and creator of its national independence, known as El Supremo. According to one account he was of ‘French descent; but the truth seems to. be that his father, Garcia Rodriguez Francia, was a native of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and went to Paraguay to take charge of a plantation of black tobacco for ...
Hace 1 día · Quick Reference. (1776–1840) Dictator of Paraguay. A leader of the Paraguayan movement for independence from Spain (1811), he dominated the post-independence period by establishing (1814) one of the most absolute dictatorships in 19th-century Latin American history. Dogmatic, anti-clerical, and xenophobic, he placed his country in almost ...
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia ( b. 6 January 1766; d. 20 September 1840), dictator of Paraguay (1814–1840). One of three major nineteenth-century rulers of Paraguay, Francia was viewed by his elite contemporaries and traditional historians as a ruthless dictator who isolated Paraguay from outside contact and whose iron rule destroyed all ...
24 de ago. de 2006 · General Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda, dictator of Paraguay, died on August 16th, aged 93. Aug 24th 2006 | Share. AP. NOT only Africa has a heart of darkness.
Francisco Solano López Carrillo (24 July 1827 or 1826 – 1 March 1870) was a Paraguayan military officer, politician and statesman who served as President of Paraguay between 1862 and 1870, of which he served mostly during the Paraguayan War (1864–1870). He succeeded his father Carlos Antonio López as the second president of Paraguay.
