...Harris Gaylord Warren The Politics of Exile. Paraguay’s Febrerista Party . By Lewis Paul H. . Chapel Hill , 1968 . University of North Carolina Press . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxv , 209 . $6.00 . Copyright 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 The history...

... American dictators, probably only Mexico’s Porfirio Díaz rivals the long-term success scored by Paraguay’s Alfredo Stroessner. While many scholars have studied the Porfiriato, Lewis is the first to present a nonpolemical view of the Stroessner phenomenon. The author’s study of Febreristas in The Politics...

... as an organizer, lost heart, Estigarribia entrusted the crucial maneuver to a talented lieutenant colonel who drove 10,000 men to victory. The treatment such officers received in the Chaco, however, planted the seeds of the ambitions and jealousies which culminated in the 1936 febrerista revolution...

... entails, the results are suggestive. Over the years, Paul H. Lewis has been somewhat of a trailblazer in Paraguayan studies in the United States. His 1965 study on the Febrerista party was the first major English-language analysis of a modern opposition party in Paraguay. His insightful 1980 work...

... veterans' disenchantment with Liberal Party rule led to the revolution that brought the Febrerista Party to power and transformed Paraguayan nationalism by enshrining Francisco Solano López and Chaco War soldiers as brave defenders of Paraguay and its unique culture and values. While Chesterton makes...

... bloody power struggles between liberal and conservative elements that engulfed Paraguay. One important contribution is to highlight the Febrerista Revolution (1936), an autochthonous socialist movement independent of both Moscow and Beijing. The ascendance of General Alfredo Stroessner, the subject...