With support from the United States, the Organization of American States, and other countries in the region, the Paraguayan people rejected an April 1996 attempt by then Army Chief General Lino Oviedo to oust President Wasmosy, taking an important step to strengthen the Paraguayan Republic.

After days of tension, Wasmosy offered him the Defence Ministry instead, but when Oviedo went to the presidential palace to take the oath, dressed in civilian clothes, the President, backed by popular demonstrations, withdrew the offer.

When President Juan Carlos Wasmosy asked him to step down from that position in April 1996, he allegedly refused and threatened a coup d ' etat.

A few months later, along with the News Show, he started a new program “ América Habla con Raul Peimbert ” a one-on one interview show that has allowed him to be one of the few Hispanic journalists that has interviewed more than 40 Latin American presidents, among them: Felipe Calderon Hinojosa ( Mexico ), Vicente Fox Quezada ( México ), Carlos Salinas de Gortari ( México ), Ernesto Zedillo ( México ), Carlos Saúl Menem ( Argentina ), Alberto Fujimori ( Perú ), César Gaviria ( Colombia ), Ernesto Samper ( Colombia ), Eduardo Frei ( Chile ), Ernesto Pérez Balladares ( Panamá ), Armando Calderón Sol ( El Salvador ), Rafael Caldera ( Venezuela ), Jaime Paz Zamora ( Bolivia ), Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada ( Bolivia ), Juan Carlos Wasmosy ( Paraguay ), Carlos Roberto Reina ( Honduras ), José López Portillo ( México ), Miguel De la Madrid ( México ), Joaquín Balaguer ( República Dominicana ), Antonio Saca ( El Salvador ), Daniel Ortega ( Nicaragua ), Hugo Chávez ( Venezuela ), Leonel Fernadez ( República Dominicana ), William Clinton ( USA ).

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.

In 2011, 48th President of Paraguay Juan Carlos Wasmosy, 49th President of Paraguay Raúl Cubas Grau, 50-th President of Paraguay Luis Ángel González Macchi and the President of the Chamber of Deputies Óscar González Daher participated in the Global Peace Festival of the Unification Church.

* May 9 – Juan Carlos Wasmosy becomes the first democratically elected President of Paraguay in nearly 40 years.

The preliminary candidate for the Colorados in December 1992 was the former minister of Integration Juan Carlos Wasmosy Monti who in August 1993 became the president of Paraguay.

Wasmosy appointed Duarte as his Minister of Education and Culture.

Juan Carlos Wasmosy Monti ( born December 15, 1938 ) was the President of Paraguay from 1993 until 1998.

Born in Asunción, Paraguay, Wasmosy trained as a civil engineer and became head of the Paraguayan consortium working on the Itaipu Dam.

Juan Carlos Wasmosy went to see the home town of his ancestors in 1995 during his official visit to Hungary.

Rodríguez endorsed Wasmosy as his successor in the 1993 elections.

In 2002, Wasmosy was convicted of defrauding the Paraguayan state and was himself sentenced to four years in prison.

A quarter of an hour of pandemonium ensued: outraged cries, booing, and whistling by the offended parties, countered by cheers and applause by the more forward-thinking contingent.

A Boston Globe report, however, countered that by stating there were nearly 700 leaks in a single section of tunnel beneath South Station.

: The claim that EPR effects violate the principle that information cannot travel faster than the speed of light have been countered by noting that they cannot be used for signaling because neither observer can control, or predetermine, what he observes, and therefore cannot manipulate what the other observer measures.

Consequently, the 16th and 17th centuries were to witness a succession of armed Druze rebellions against the Ottomans, countered by repeated Ottoman punitive expeditions against the Chouf, in which the Druze population of the area was severely depleted and many villages destroyed.

Allen and his cohorts countered by issuing offers of their own.

* If a leap occurs, it must be small and immediately countered by stepwise motion in the opposite direction.

An open row of three ( one that is not blocked by an opponent's stone at either end ) has to be blocked immediately, or countered with a threat elsewhere on the board.

There he countered various unauthorized publications of his music by obtaining his own publishing privilege.

These were countered by another small band of Huns hired by Honorius ' minister Olympius.

These ideas can be countered by the fact that during the winter, the time of year in which UV light is most scarce at northern latitudes, the ground is often covered with white snow.

Its taxation laws have been widely criticised by various people and groups, however the former Chief Minister of Jersey, Terry Le Sueur, has countered these criticisms, saying that " Jersey among cooperative finance centres ".

Babbitt's depiction of Rousseau was countered in a celebrated and much reprinted essay by A. O. Lovejoy in 1923.

The PLO's " vicious terrorist attacks in Israel " dating from this period were countered by Israeli bombing raids in southern Lebanon, where " 150 or more towns and villages ... have been repeatedly savaged by the Israeli armed forces since 1968 ," of which the village of Khiyam is probably the best-known example.

Some have countered this finding by saying that the angle of the film from the horizontal along with sun's angle on that day made shadows underwater unlikely.

In the Test matches, Bradman countered bodyline by moving toward the leg side, away from the line of the ball, and cutting it into the vacant off side field.

The Trotskyist demands countered Stalin ’ s political dominance of the Russian Communist Party, which was officially characterised by the ‘ cult of Lenin ’, the rejection of permanent revolution, and the doctrine of Socialism in One Country.

Ethnicity, being largely developed by a divergence in geography, language, culture, genes and similarly, point of view, has the potential to be countered by a common source of information.

Side effects, such as perspiration and diarrhea, can be countered by adding atropine.

Opponents of this view observe that the religion of the Torah seems different to Atenism in everything except the central feature of devotion to a single god, although this has been countered by a variety of arguments, e. g. pointing out the similarities between the Hymn to Aten and Psalm 104.

The effects of morphine can be countered with opioid antagonists such as naloxone and naltrexone ; the development of tolerance to morphine may be inhibited by NMDA antagonists such as ketamine or dextromethorphan.

Laval delayed and then countered by offering to send one worker for the return of one French soldier being held captive in Germany.

Nicias countered this rhetorical thrust by offering to stand aside as general and allow Cleon to take command of an expeditionary force to Pylos.

Proponents of alternative education countered that expanding the student body so drastically would destroy the school's intimate ethos, and that the higher per-pupil spending resulted from CHS offering many classroom places, uncompensated, to students from other high schools who commuted for one or two classes.

While demonstrating that orchids evolve mechanisms that allow for cross-fertilisation, and offering strong evidence for Darwin's larger arguments about variation, the volume also countered natural theology in what Darwin himself admitted was a " flank movement against the enemy.

Those who opposed Microsoft's position countered that the browser was still a distinct and separate product which did not need to be tied to the operating system, since a separate version of Internet Explorer was available for Mac OS.

This position is countered by fellow philosopher Tom Regan, who writes that the same argument could be used to justify having sex with children.

The PIAT had several advantages over other infantry anti-tank weapons of the period, which included a lack of muzzle smoke to reveal the position of the user, and an inexpensive barrel ; however, this was countered by, amongst other things, a difficulty in cocking the weapon, the bruising the user received when firing it, and problems with its penetrative power.

This position is countered by BNP members who claim that their party is increasingly democratic in its nature.

This position is countered by those that assert that members of minorities require specific provisions and rights to ensure that they are not marginalised within society ( for example, bilingual education may be needed to allow linguistic minorities to fully integrate into the school system and hence compete on a level playing field in society ), and that rights for minorities, far from weakening the nation-building project, actually strengthen it ; where members of minorities see that their specific needs and ambitions have been acknowledged and catered for, they will commit themselves more willingly to accepting the legitimacy of the nation and their integration ( as opposed to assimilation ) within it.

"</ BLOCKQUOTE > However, Martin Kramer, who debated Pape on origins of suicide bombing, countered Pape's position that the motivation for suicide attacks is not just strategic logic but also an interpretation of Islam to provide a moral logic.

A shareholder countered with the position that especially the State Street store could be even more successful if converted back to Marshall Field's, citing May 2010 survey results showing that 81 % of Chicago shoppers still preferred Marshall Field's over Macy's while 13 % preferred Macy's over Marshall Field's.

Sivo countered that he had no intention of relinquishing his position, and said that he could be only removed if the party judged him unfit for the post.

Two laps later he did it, with a time of 1 minute and 30. 946 seconds, but Häkkinen countered in the final minute and took the pole position with 1 minute and 30. 462 seconds, nearly half a second faster than Coulthard.

G. K. Orjonikidze countered Stalin's position that a bourgeious court could give fair trial to a revolutionary leader of the working class.

A further approach potentially open to the government was to take the position that as a ' third party ', not heard by the Court, the ruling did not apply to them ( other sources countered this by pointing out that the FPIM-foundation had represented the government ).

Sivo, however, countered that he had no intention of resigning and said that he could be removed only if the party considered him unfit for the position.

Beckham countered by citing his strong stand in favor of Prohibition, as opposed to McCreary's more moderate position, and by touting his support of a primary election instead of a nominating convention, which he said gave the voters a choice in who would represent them in the Senate.