In 1820, four years after a Paraguayan congress had named Francia dictator for life with the title El Supremo Dictador ( supreme dictator ), Francia's security system uncovered and quickly crushed a plot by the elite to assassinate El Supremo.

Although pressure of this sort no doubt encouraged Stroessner to legalize some internal opposition parties, it failed to make the Paraguayan ruler become any less a personalist dictator.

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 ).

Major General Higinio Morínigo Martínez ( January 11, 1897 – January 27, 1983 ) was a Paraguayan dictator, general and political figure.

* 1965 – José Luis Chilavert, Paraguayan footballer

José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia was one of the greatest figures in Paraguayan history.

* José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia ( 1766 – 1840 ) Paraguayan.

Guarania is the second-best-known Paraguayan musical style, and was created by musician José Asunción Flores in 1925.

On 22 December 1992 a significant amount of information about Operation Condor came to light when José Fernández, a Paraguayan judge, visited a police station in the Lambaré suburb of Asunción to look for files on a former political prisoner.

José Luis Félix Chilavert González ( born 27 July 1965 in Luque, Departamento Central ) is a Paraguayan former football player who played as a goalkeeper.

Campo Grande started as a small village founded in 1877 by farmers José Antônio Pereira and Manoel Vieira de Sousa ( a. k. a. Manoel Olivério ), who came from Minas Gerais just after the end of the Paraguayan War.

Marshal José Félix Estigarribia Insaurralde ( born February 21, 1888 ; Caraguatay – died September 7, 1940 ; Altos ) was a decorated Paraguayan war hero and President of Paraguay for the Liberal party.

The most famous style of music is the Guarania, created by the Paraguayan musician José Asunción Flores in 1925.

The first penetration in the territory of the Baixo Guandu, the former jurisdiction of the municipality of Colatina occurred in 1875, when the major José Vieira de Carvalho Milagres, veteran Paraguayan War reaches the confluence of the Rio Doce river Guandu and there down the core leading to the city.

Santa Cruz is currently the joint all-time leading goal scorer, with José Saturnino Cardozo, of the Paraguayan national team's history.

His goal brought him to a total of 25 goals for Paraguay, making him the joint all-time leading goal scorer of the Paraguayan national team's history ( with José Saturnino Cardozo ).

The offensive idea suited perfectly the Paraguayan José Saturnino Cardozo, who became the best scorer of the league in four occasions.

José Ricardo Devaca Sánchez ( born 18 September 1982 in Capiatá ) is a Paraguayan footballer.

Some remarkable players for Racing were José Salomón, Chilean Sergio Livingstone and Paraguayan striker Delfín Benítez Cáceres.

At the beginning of the 2007 Apertura season, Paraguayan legend José Cardozo took the helm as coach.

The Prince Gaston, Count of Eu | Count of Eu ( with his hand on the waist, center-right ) with future Viscount of Rio Branco José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco | José Maria da Silva Paranhos, Sr. ( on his right ) and Taunay ( between the two ) among Brazilian soldiers during the Paraguayan War, in a photo dating from c. 1870

Later in the same match, he scored a goal from the spot and took his total to 64, also tying the match 2 – 2 ; this put him two goals ahead of the previous holder, Paraguayan José Luis Chilavert.

In 1867, during the Paraguayan War, the Brazilians set up the Trinchera de San José military base there.

José Díaz de Bedoya was member in Paraguayan Triumvirate following death of Francisco Solano López from November 1870 to 10 December 1870.

José Higinio Uriarte y García del Barrio ( 1843, Asunción-1909 ) was Paraguayan politician.

José Segundo Decoud was appointed as Paraguayan representative in Uruguay and Brazil, César Gondra in the Vatican and Juan Durán y Cuervo in Spain.

José Patricio Guggiari Corniglione ( Asunción 17 March 1884-Buenos Aires 30 October 1957 ) was a Paraguayan politician.

Believing that the Paraguayan officers who had beaten the porteños posed a direct threat to his rule, Governor Bernardo de Velasco dispersed and disarmed the forces under his command and sent most of the soldiers home without paying them for their eight months of service.

Not only were the Portuguese threatening to overrun the northern frontiers, but Argentina had also effectively closed the Río de la Plata to Paraguayan commerce by levying taxes and seizing ships.

When the Argentine envoy, Nicolás de Herrera, arrived in May 1813, he learned to his dismay that all decisions had to await the meeting of a Paraguayan congress in late September.

Paraguay and Venezuela have restarted negotiations on an unpaid debt of $ 250 million owed by Paraguayan oil company Petropar to its counterpart Petróleos de Venezuela after the Presidents of Paraguay and Venezuela met to deal with the financing.

* January 5 – Paraguayan War: Brazilian Army commander Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias enters Asunción, Paraguay's capital.

* December 6 – Paraguayan War – Battle of Itororó or Ytororó: Field-Marshal Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias leads 13, 000 Brazilian troops against a Paraguayan fortified position of 5, 000 troops.

In the previous year, Palmeiras had won the Rio de Janeiro Quadricentennial Cup by beating the Paraguayan national team 5 – 2 and besting Peñarol of Uruguay in the final.

In the 1960s, Sevilla FC entered an economic crisis due to the debts acquired to build the new stadium, reason for which the club was obliged to the selling of its best players: the first one was Ruiz Sosa, to the Athletico de Madrid ; then Francisco Gallego, to the Barcelona Football Club, with great anger among the fans ; and the Paraguayan Agüero, to Real Madrid.

* Luis Cabral ( footballer ), Paraguayan footballer who plays for Club Sol de América

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The lyrics were written by Francisco Acuña de Figueroa ( who also wrote Orientales, la Patria o la tumba, the national anthem of Uruguay ) under the presidency of Carlos Antonio López, who at the time delegated Bernardo Jovellanos and Anastasio González to ask Figueroa to write the anthem ( Jovellanos and González were commissioners of the Paraguayan government in Uruguay ).

In Caacupé operate several institutions, such as the Governorate of the Cordillera, City Hall, Comptroller General of the Republic, Court of First Instance, Banco Nacional de Fomento, COPACO SA, ANDE, Mail, Regional Hospital, oversight of primary and secondary schools, National University Three private universities, secondary schools, primary and secondary schools, several high schools, private institutes, Paraguayan Red Cross, Lions Club, and several more institutions.

Natalicio de María Talavera ( 1839 – 1867 ) Initial figure of the Paraguayan parnassus.

Is hometown of important personalities of Paraguayan history, as Vicente Ignacio Iturbe and Juana María de Lara and the musician Rosita Mello, who is from Santaní.

The President of Paraguay ( officially in Spanish Excelentisimo Señor Presidente de la República del Paraguay ) is according to the Paraguayan Constitution the Chief of the Executive branch of the Government of Paraguay.

* Luis María del Corazón de Jesús Dionisio Argaña Ferraro, Paraguayan politician

He went to Asunción in 1901, at the age of fifteen, to attend a university ( Universidad Nacional de Asunción ) with a scholarship in music, thus becoming one of the youngest university students in Paraguayan history.

Floriano Vieira de Araújo Peixoto ( 30 April 1839 — 29 July 1895 ), born in Ipioca ( today a district of the city of Maceió in the State of Alagoas ), was a Brazilian soldier and politician, a veteran of the Paraguayan War, and the second president of Brazil.

When his father was sent to the Paraguayan War, the family returned to Rio de Janeiro.

* Federación Paraguaya de Atletismo, the Paraguayan Athletics Federation