| The quoted documents here, are just a part of the existence on our recent past developments, out of which are specially revealing, those prior to the Cold War's climax in the mid 50s for carrying more objectivity than those that followed. So, whatever the source be -The New York Times, The Washingon Post, etc- the coverage of the events since Stroessner's fall, still reflects very much the dark version of the status quo's groups. In Latin America, genuine democratic movements like ours, have been striving long to break the existing oppressive feudal structures, true mediums for illegitimate powers open to all kind of dangerous penetrations, horribly materialized today as drugtrafficking terrorism. Cocaine, marihuana, etc ... simply took the lead over other cashcrops, in some of our neocolonial -monocultural- economies. That's it. The distorting influence of the super powers' Cold War was, no doubt, a hot and demolishing one to our dependent countries. The main effect was -by far- the increasing preponderance of totalitarian minority factions because of the hardline policies being implemented from Moscow and Washington. In Paraguay, the creole nazi-fascism, along with the native stalinism in tacit alliance, early on identified us -the Colorados- as their common enemies. The civil war of 1947 showed this barefaced pact which was against the bulk of the population, standing behind the Colorado Party. We deeply understand the idealism and good faith of our brothers, misled by the brain-washing propaganda that took them into the military adventure in 1947. They just couldn't see the objective fact that the insurgence's leadership was the same one responsible for frustrating the February '36 revolution, and since then becoming the pretorian guard of the old order. Could it have any credibility? The argument for the uprising was 'the Dictator Morinigo', but the real target was the profoundly revolutionary social movement successfully prompting the president toward democratization. (25) The nationalist attempt frozen on Aug. 13, 1937, reappeared on June 9, 1946, led by Coloradismo. The regressive maneuver, again, aiming at another restoration -like in 1937- did not succeed on this occasion but cost us the fratricidal strife of 1947, won by the vast majority of paraguayans. To a certain degree, the Liberals are right in saying that argentinian President Juan D. Peron (1945/55) had helped the Colorado Party in 1947. But not in the sense of having provided direct aid and only because Peron's Administration, unlike its predecessors -in 1904, 1912 and perhaps even 1937- did not show any interest in patronizing the paraguayan oligarchy. |
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