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  Paraguay - Francisco Solano Lopez
She became the largest landowner in Paraguay after Solano Lopez transferred most of the country and portions of Brazil to her name during the war, yet she retained practically nothing when the war ended.
Others saw Solano Lopez as a paranoid megalomaniac, a man who wanted to be the "Napoleon of South America," willing to reduce his country to ruin and his countrymen to beggars in his vain quest for glory.
Solano Lopez's basic failing was that he did not recognize the changes that had occurred in the region since Francia's time.
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Francisco Solano Lopez is an important point of reference in the world of the comic strips.
Lopez would more often than not pencil the drawings that were then inked and finished by the studio.
Lopez has also worked on the strips Peter Kock and Razorguts with scripts by Ricardo Barreiro, Burial of the Rats, an adaptation of a Bram Stoker story, Corpses in balance and Death is always go which appeared in France in 1985 and 1986.
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 AllRefer.com - Francisco Solano LOpez (Paraguay History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Francisco Solano LOpez[frAnthEs´kO sOlA´nO lO´pAs] Pronunciation Key, 1826?–1870, president of Paraguay (1862–70).
A megalomaniac who considered himself the Napoleon of South America, LOpez fanatically sought to increase the prestige of Paraguay and waged (1865) a disastrous war with Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay (see Triple Alliance, War of the).
Solano LOpez, however, is today regarded by some Latin Americans as the champion of the rights of small countries against the aggression of more powerful neighbors.
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 Paraguay under dictatorship 1811-1870
In 1845 he named his nineteen-year-old son Francisco Solano Lopez commander in chief of the army.
Francisco Solano Lopez (president from 1862 to 1870), the thirty-five-year-old who inherited the presidency,
Brazilian soldiers caught the obese Francisco Solano Lopez and ended his Napoleonic career with a bullet.
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 Francisco Solano López - Encyclopedia.com
Francisco Solano López, 1826?-1870, president of Paraguay (1862-70).
He was the son of Carlos Antonio López, who made him a brigadier general at 18.
Solano López, however, is today regarded by some Latin Americans as the champion of the rights of small countries against the aggression of more powerful neighbors.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Lopez-Fr.html   (602 words)

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