In 1954, General Alfredo Stroessner took advantage of the strong link between the armed forces and the Colorado Party to overthrow the government ; he ruled until 1989.

The National Republican Association-Colorado Party ( Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado ) dominated Paraguayan political life from the late 1880s until Liberals overthrew it in 1904.

Caballero responded, along with his principal adviser, José Segundo Decoud, and Escobar, by forming the Colorado Party one month later, thus formalizing the political cleavage.

Moríñigo's intentions about stepping down were murky, however, and his de facto alliance with Colorado Party hardliners and their thuggish Guión Rojo ( red script ) paramilitary group antagonized the opposition.

When he tried to fill it with the Colorado Party, he split the party in two, and neither faction could establish itself in power without help from the military.

Méndez Fleitas was unpopular with Colorado Party stalwarts and the army, who feared that he was trying to build a following as did his hero, Juan Domingo Perón, Argentina's president from 1946 to 1955.

About two months later, a divided Colorado Party nominated Stroessner for president.

He was barely in control of the Colorado Party, which was split by competing factions and ambitious politicians, and the army was not a dependable supporter.

In April 1959, however, Stroessner grudgingly decided to heed the growing call for reform within the army and the Colorado Party.

Second, the many purges of the Colorado Party had removed all opposition factions.

The exhaustion of most opposition forces enabled Stroessner to crush the Paraguayan Communist Party ( Partido Communista Paraguayo-PCP ) by mercilessly persecuting its members and their spouses and to isolate the exiled Colorado epifanistas ( followers of Epifanio Méndez Fleitas ) and democráticos, who had reorganized themselves as the Popular Colorado Movement ( Movimiento Popular Colorado-Mopoco ).

By skillfully balancing the military and the Colorado Party, Stroessner remained very much in control.

Using Stroessner's National Constitution, Rodríguez orchestrated a political campaign with the Colorado Party and won the presidency in an election held on May 1989 in which the Colorado Party dominated the Congress.

In May 1993, Colorado Party candidate Juan Carlos Wasmosy was elected as Paraguay's first civilian president in almost 40 years in what international observers deemed fair and free elections.

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Colorado Party candidate Jorge Batlle, aided by the support of the National Party, defeated Broad Front candidate Tabaré Vázquez.

National elections were held in 1984 ; Colorado Party leader Julio María Sanguinetti won the presidency and, following the brief interim Presidency of Rafael Addiego Bruno, served from 1985 to 1990.

As no single party had a majority in the General Assembly, the National Party joined with Sanguinetti's Colorado Party in a coalition government.

On 15 June 1838, an army led by the Colorado leader Rivera overthrew the president, who fled to Argentina.

The Colorado leader José Batlle y Ordóñez was elected president in 1903.

This led the Colorados and the exiled Unitarios to seek French backing against Oribe and on June 15, 1838, an army led by the Colorado leader Rivera overthrew the president, who fled to Argentina.

* In Buenos Aires, leader Bartolomé Mitre subverts the Argentine Confederation and begins to establish a new centralist government with the help of Uruguayan Colorado party leader Venancio Flores.

The leader of those who left was Colorado Senator Henry M. Teller ; he was immediately spoken of as a possible candidate for the Democratic nomination.

Matt Duchene set a franchise record as the youngest scoring leader in Quebec / Colorado history with 67 points, sharing the club goals-leader title with David Jones, each with 27 tallies.

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As leader of the Colorado Party, Stroessner exercised nearly complete control over the nation's political scene.

At about age 18, Ouray came to modern-day Colorado to be a member of the Tabeguache ( Uncompahgre ) Ute band, where his father was already a leader.

He was a leader in the Colorado term limits movement.

It also gave him 1, 049 points with the Quebec / Colorado franchise, passing Peter Stastny as the all-time leader on the team.

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He is also the all-time leader for goals, assists, points and games played by a Latvian in the NHL and holds several Colorado Avalanche and San Jose Sharks franchise records.

Five years after the first excimer laser was invented in 1970 by Nikolai Basov, and two years after Northrop Corporation Research and Technology Center's team leader, Dr. Bhaumik announced the successful demonstration of the world's first efficient excimer laser at the Denver, Colorado meeting of the Optical Society of America in May 1973, Hart along with Naval Research Laboratory colleague, Stuart Searles, ( also confer Charles Brau, James J. Ewing ) invented ( and patented ) an excimer laser improvement ; subsequently, excimer lasers found extensive use as the type of laser that made possible the immensely popular Lasik corrective eye surgery, and are utilized today in semiconductor manufacturing.

It is named after the former Colorado Party leader, Venancio Flores, who was born in Trinidad in the nineteenth century.

He is the leader of the National Union of Ethical Citizens, which split from the Colorado Party in 2002.

Colorado / Canyon U. S. sales peaked in 2005 at 163, 204 units, surpassing the perennial segment leader, the Ford Ranger, by almost 35 % and just 3. 3 % behind the new best-seller, the Toyota Tacoma.

Earl Farwell Dodge, Jr. ( December 24, 1932 – November 7, 2007 ) was a long-time temperance movement leader and a politician of the Prohibition Party, from the U. S. state of Colorado.

It was born as a split of the Party for the Government of the People ( Partido por el Gobierno del Pueblo ), whose leader was the former Vice-President Hugo Batalla, when the party decided to join the Colorado Party for the 1993 elections.

Although not on the group's coordinating committee ( the Weather Bureau ), Gilbert did act as a regional leader, spending at least some of these years in Colorado.

Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo ( b. 6 January 1936, Montevideo, Uruguay ) is a Uruguayan politician, lawyer and journalist, as well as a former President of Uruguay ( from March 1985 until March 1990, and, again, from March 1995 until March 2000 ) for the Partido Colorado.

When Julio María Sanguinetti of the Colorado Party won the presidential election, Álvarez resigned ( on February 12, 1985 ).

The " Batllismo " faction of the Colorado Party led by Julio María Sanguinetti won the primaries.

Pacheco's election result was very poor, but even his marginal result was significant for the Colorado Party to narrowly defeat the National Party and electing once again Julio María Sanguinetti to the presidency.

Julio C. Tello ( 1880 to 1947 ), the " father " of Peruvian archaeology, conducted archaeological digs around the Paracas area in 1927 and 1928 as a result of learning that tomb robbers had found large caches of funerary materials, including highly prized textiles, as well as ceramics and ceremonial offerings at a site called Cerro Colorado, which is now a protected area inside the Paracas Ecological Reserve.

Although Zumaran-Aguirre emerged victorious within the National Party, the Blancos lost the election to the Colorado Party and its main candidate, Julio María Sanguinetti.

In March 1994, Aguirre was chosen by his faction to be a presidential candidate in the November 1994 elections, but in early October of that year he renounced his candidacy after Julio María Sanguinetti, former President and candidate of the Foro Batllista faction of the Colorado Party, alleged that his candidacy was incompatible ( in Uruguay, the vice-president may not occupy the presidency, even interimly, three months before the general elections, and Aguirre had replaced Lacalle in August when the President had gone on a visit abroad ).