Solano López's conduct laid him open to such charges.

In the first place, Solano López's miscalculations and ambitions plunged Paraguay into a war with Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.

Thousands of others, including Paraguay's bravest soldiers and generals, also went to their deaths before firing squads or were hacked to pieces on Solano López's orders.

Solano López's basic failing was that he did not recognize the changes that had occurred in the region since Francia's time.

Argentina refused Solano López's request for permission for his army to cross Argentine territory to attack the Brazilian province of Río Grande do Sul, Undeterred, Solano López sent his forces into Argentina.

Under the treaty, these nations vowed to destroy Solano López's government.

In terms of size, Solano López's 30, 000-man army was the most powerful in Latin America but the army's strength was illusory because it lacked trained leadership, a reliable source of weapons and adequate reserves.

As the war neared its inevitable denouement, Solano López's grip on reality loosened further.

Solano López's hostility even extended to United States Ambassador to Paraguay Charles Ames Washburn.

This, of course, was forced into practice by Paraguayan dictator Francisco Solano López's disastrous 1865 invasion of northern Argentine territory, leading to an alliance between 1820s-era adversaries Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay and the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives ( particularly Paraguay's own ).

The Cuartel de López, a museum in Francisco Solano López's former barracks, has three rooms where bullets, cannon, stirrups, spurs, swords, and other battlefield relics are displayed.

Paraguay's soldiers exhibited suicidal bravery, especially considering that Solano López shot or tortured so many of them for trivial offenses.

Nevertheless, Francisco Solano López, Paraguay's president, prepares guerrillas to fight in the countryside.

With these modern aircraft SAM united the most important cities of the country ( Medellín, Bogotá, Cali, Barranquilla, Pereira, Montería, Valledupar, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Riohacha, Cúcuta, Leticia, and Quibdó ), as well as several regional destinations ( San Andrés, Providencia Island, Capurganá, Bahía Solano, Caucasia, Puerto Berrío, Chigorodó, and Nuquí ) as well as a number of international destinations ( Aruba, Guatemala City, San José de Costa Rica, Panama, Quito, Caracas, and Curaçao ).

With a record of 12-0 and 5 knockouts, he returned to the Dominican Republic, where he challenged Julio Soto Solano on 16 October for the " Latin American Bantamweight title ", winning the regional belt by outpointing Solano over 12 rounds.

The dictator of nearby Paraguay, Francisco Solano López, took advantage of the Uruguayan situation in late 1864 by attempting to establish his nation as a regional power.

Solano López consolidated his power after his father's death in 1862 by silencing several hundred critics and would-be reformers through imprisonment.

In the decade following the war, the principal political conflicts within Paraguay reflected the Liberal-Colorado split, with Legionnaires battling Lopiztas ( ex-followers of Solano López ) for power, while Brazil and Argentina maneuvered in the background.

Paraguay declared its independence from Spain in 1811 ; since then, the country has had a history of dictatorial governments, from the Utopian regime of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia ( El Supremo ) to the suicidal reign of Francisco Solano López, who nearly devastated the country in warfare against the combined forces of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay from 1865 through 1870.

Consistent with his plans to start a Paraguayan " third force " between Argentina and Brazil, Solano López committed the nation to Uruguay's aid.

When Argentina failed to react to Brazil's invasion of Uruguay, Solano López seized a Brazilian warship in November 1864.

Solano López then struck at his enemy's main force in Uruguay ; he was, however unaware that Argentina had acquiesced to Brazil's Uruguay policy and would not support Paraguay against Brazil.

Flores won backing from Brazil and, this time, from Argentina, who supplied him with troops and weapons, while Berro made an alliance with the Paraguayan leader Francisco Solano López.

Some people believe that Eliza Lynch was responsible in inducing Francisco Solano López to start the Paraguayan War and that she provoked him to carry on the futile and bloody war against Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil.

He has been awarded the order of Boyacá ( Colombia ), San Carlos ( Colombia ), Sól ( Peru ), Malta, Isabel La Católica ( España ), Order of José Matías Delgado ( El Salvador ), Quetzal ( Guatemala and Honduras ), Cruzeiro do Sul ( Brasil ), Merit ( Chile ), Mariscal Francisco Solano López ( Paraguay ), Order of the Liberator General San Martín ( Argentina ), Libertador ( Venezuela ), Andrés Bello ( Venezuela ), Águila Azteca ( Mexico ) and Manuel Amador Guerrero ( Panama ), among others.

Vicente Solano Lima ( September 21, 1901 – April 23, 1984 ) was a moderately conservative newspaper publisher and politician who served as Vice President of Argentina from May 25, 1973 to July 13, 1973.

Taking office on May 25, Solano Lima focused his attention on helping increase university enrollment among the working and lower classes in Argentina.

Argentina, the Brazilian Empire and Uruguay invaded and routed the militaristic Paraguay of Francisco Solano López, after the strategic Rio Grande do Sul in Southern Brazil was invaded.

She became the largest landowner in Paraguay after Solano López transferred most of Paraguay and portions of Brazil into her name during the war, yet she retained practically nothing when the war ended.

Yet Solano López would have done well to heed his father's last words to avoid aggressive acts in foreign affairs, especially with Brazil.

During the war, Solano López ordered the executions of his own brothers and had his mother and sisters tortured when he suspected them of opposing him.

Paraguay was in no sense prepared for a major war, let alone a war of the scope that Solano López had unleashed.

Carlos Antonio López had survived mainly with caution and a good bit of luck ; Solano López had neither.

This group of exiles, based in Buenos Aires, had regarded Solano López as a mad tyrant and fought for the allies during the war.

In a gesture calculated to rewrite history and erase seven decades of national shame, Franco declared Solano López a national hero " sin ejemplar " ( without precedent ) because he had stood up to foreign threats, and sent a team to Cerro Corá to find his unmarked grave.

As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 92, 428, making it the third largest city in Solano County.

The 2010 United States Census reported that Solano County had a population of 413, 344.

He maintained good relationships with the Native Americans of the region and was helped by his friendship with native Chief Solano of the Suisunes, who had been baptized at the mission and who lived near the city.

Delius's next work, Appalachia, introduces a further feature that would recur in later pieces — the use of the voice instrumentally in wordless singing, in this case depicting the distant plantation songs that had inspired Delius at Solano Grove.

The strip, with artwork by Francisco Solano López told the story of his own meeting with a time traveler, who had already lived over 100 lives and has journeyed to the past to warn the protagonist of a future catastrophe.

Before reuniting Blind Illusion, Biedermann had performed earlier shows at the Sobrante Stroll as well as at the older and much larger Solano Stroll fair in Berkeley.

Solano revealed that Alan Shearer had played an influential role in arranging his return.

However it was not an unfamiliar playing position to Solano, as he had started his football career in defence and had featured at right-back for his country.

Solano rejoined former Foxes ' boss Nigel Pearson, who had recently taken over the manager's job at Hull City, signing a one-year deal.

Despite initial expectations that Solano would be with Hull City for only a single season before retiring, Solano revealed in April 2011, that he hoped that he would be able to extend his stay with the Tigers beyond the 2010 – 11 season, by combining a playing and coaching role, as Nick Barmby had done.

It was announced on 13 May 2011 that Solano had signed for Hartlepool United, having previously worked with their manager Mick Wadsworth at Newcastle.

In April 2012, the club confirmed Solano had been advised not to play for the remainder of the season because of recurring illness.

With another friar as a companion, Solano spent over a month caring for and consoling the victims, who had been sent out of the city to a small chapel in the outlying countryside.