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	Paraguay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lying on both banks of the Paraguay River, it borders Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the northeast and Bolivia to the northwest.
		Paraguay's highly centralised and often dictatorial government was fundamentally changed by the 1992 constitution, which provides for a division of powers.
		The Paraguayan landscape consists of grassy plains and wooded hills in the region east of Paraguay River that divides the country in two; the region west of the river, the (Gran) Chaco features mostly low, marshy plains near the river and dry forest and thorny scrub further west.
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	Paraguay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name "Paraguay" is derived from the Guarani words "pará", meaning "ocean", "gua" meaning to or from and "y" meaning "water"; in other words "water that goes to the ocean".
		In the disastrous War of the Triple Alliance (1865–1870), Paraguay lost two-thirds of its adult male population and 140,000 km² of its territory.
		Paraguay's economy is very dependent on Brazil, its neighbour in the east.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paraguay (1163 words)

	Paraguay Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The name "Paraguay" is derived from the Guarani languageGuarani words "pará", meaning "this side" and "guay", meaning "river".
		The 35-year military dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner was overthrown in 1989, and, despite a marked increase in political infighting in recent years, relatively free and regular presidential elections have been held since then, however the democracy that exists in the country, while a great improvement on the 'stronato' is very limited.
		Paraguay's highly centralised and often dictatorshipdictatorial government was fundamentally changed by the 1992 constitution, which provides for a division of powers.
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	Polity IV Country Report 2003 Paraguay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Paraguay's highly centralized government was fundamentally changed by the 1992 constitution.
		This central political tension has resulted in the unstable nature of politics in Paraguay over the past decade.
		Compounding this factional tension is the role of personalism and corruption among the political elite and their continued use of violence to achieve political objectives.
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	Paraguay - Gurupedia
		Alfredo Stroessner was overthrown in 1989, and, despite a marked increase in political infighting in recent years, relatively free and regular presidential elections have been held since then.
		Paraguay's highly centralised and often dictatorial government was fundamentally changed by the 1992
		Koreans, ethnic Chinese, Arabs, Brazilians, and Argentines are among those who have settled in Paraguay and they have to an extent retained their respective languages.
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	Hashizume: Step into Boots, Step into Paraguay: A Feasibility Analysis of Manufacturing Hiking Boots in Paraguay
		Paraguay is a landlocked country located in the center of South America surrounded by Brazil, Bolivia, and Argentina (odci).
		Paraguay's topography is another important factor in analyzing the location of Timber Wolf's manufacturing plant and the market potential of the country.
		The western half of Paraguay is called Chaco region, and it consists mostly of low, marshy land near the river and dry forest and thorny scrub over the rest.
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	Paraguay Country Guide - History and Government - World Travel Guide Provided By Columbus Travel Publishing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The territory of Paraguay was then governed as a subsidiary of the Vice-Royalty of Peru and later of Buenos Aires.
		Democratic politics in Paraguay have survived but the situation — especially given the country’s difficult economic situation — is still febrile.
		Although democratic politics in Paraguay have more or less survived, the population is deeply disillusioned and there are signs that the rural peasantry, after decades of impoverishment, are now organising to challenge the established order.
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	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Indigenous Peoples in Paraguay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A new constitution recognizes indigenous rights, but political reality is proving to be quite different from the constitutional ideal; the problems facing Paraguay's indigenous people are not likely to go away anytime soon.
		The indigenous population of Paraguay consists of 17 ethnic groups who are divided into five linguistic groups: the Mascoi, Mataco, Zamuco, Guarani, and the Guaykuru.
		Most of the indigenous groups of western Paraguay (known as the Chaco) remained independent of European domination until the late 19th century; those in the eastern portion largely succumbed a century earlier.
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	Paraguay - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Europeans first arrived in the area in the early 16th century and the settlement of Asuncion was founded in 1537.
		Paraguay declared its independence by overthrowing the local Spanish authorities on May 14, 1811.
		Paraguay consists of 17 departments (departamentos, singular - departamento) and 1 capital city, marked by a *:
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	Paraguay - LIBERALS VERSUS COLORADOS
		After the war, Paraguay's mostly rural populace continued to subsist as it had done for centuries, eking out a meager existence in the hinterland under unimaginably difficult conditions.
		After the last foreign troops had gone in 1876 and an arbitral award to Paraguay of the area between the Río Verde and Río Pilcomayo by an international commission headed by Rutherford B. Hayes, United States president, the era of party politics in Paraguay was free to begin in earnest.
		The political rivalry between Liberals and Colorados was presaged as early as 1869 when the terms Azules (Blues) and Colorados (Reds) first appeared.
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	Paraguay History & Paraguay Culture \| iExplore
		The recorded history of Paraguay starts from the first encounters between European explorers and the Guarani tribes populating the upper reaches of what are now the Parana and Paraguay rivers.
		Although democratic politics in Paraguay have more or less survived, the population is deeply disillusioned and there are signs that the rural peasantry, after decades of impoverishment, are now organizing to challenge the established order.
		Although since the early 1990s Paraguay has implemented major economic reforms centered on liberalization and deregulation of the public sector and large private monopolies, as required by its principal external creditors and donors, the economy has performed poorly in recent years.
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	AllRefer.com - Paraguay - Government and Politics \| Paraguayan Information Resource
		As the neighboring republics of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Uruguay underwent political transitions from authoritarian to democratic regimes in the early 1980s, Paraguay was often considered with Chile, on the far side of the Andes, the only remaining analogous regime in South America.
		Pressure from these new democracies for a similar transition in Paraguay was low; however, in the 1980s the United States was clearly in favor of a political opening for a peaceful transition in the post-Stroessner era.
		Paraguay - The Twin Pillars of the Stroessner Regime
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	Paraguay Country Guide - History and Government - World Travel Guide Provided By Columbus Travel Publishing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Since the 1940s, Paraguay has been under military rule for most of the time, interspersed with periods of crisis and internal conflict.
		The army, long the dominant force in Paraguayan politics, was largely but not entirely content to accept its loss of influence.
		In 2002 there were riots and incidences of civil disorder as the government split over revelations of corruption and the implementation of austerity measures — demanded as part of an IMF financial package.
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	NotiSur - Latin American Political Affairs; September 15, 1995
		According to Zarza, the meeting was not political and those present only discussed "fishing and horse racing." However, the major's testimony contradicted statements he made to the press shortly after the meeting, when he said Oviedo had pressured those present to maintain party unity.
		Most political analysts expect the general to retire in 1997, just before officially throwing his hat in the presidential ring.
		Wasmosy, who heads Paraguay's first democratic civilian government in 60 years, is credited with making notable political advances in the country and with having an ability to bring diverse sectors of society together to dialogue and reach a consensus on important issues such as judicial reform (see NotiSur, 04/21/95).
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	Military Review: Paraguay politics revisited - Letters - Letter to the Editor
		Sean W. Burges, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom--George W. Bush's administration and the U.S. military are constantly under attack for lacking sensitivity and understanding of the roots and causes of international issues.
		There is readily available material on Paraguay published by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Washington, D.C. For a less anti-U.S. intervention source, see the works of internationally recognized scholars such as R. Andrew Nickson, University of Birmingham, UK; Peter Lambert, University of Bath, UK; or Frank O. Mora, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee.
		A related point concerns Paraguay's military history in which Mendel fails to mention that promotions were being linked to Colorado Party membership and support of the correct faction during General Alfredo S. Stroessner's dictatorship.
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	Paraguay Politics
		Paraguay's Vice President Slain in Street Ambush in the Capital
		Angry citizens chase Paraguay president from memorial rally
		Paraguay's Colorado Party Set to Extend 5-Decade Rule
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /paraguay-politics.htm (60 words)

	Paraguay extradites drug suspect - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A reputed drug czar in Paraguay, known to be a leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, has been extradited to the United States to stand trial on charges involving a major cocaine, currency and weapons smuggling operation, authorities said yesterday.
		U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration chief Karen P. Tandy said Ivan Carlos Mendes-Mesquita was indicted in September by a federal grand jury in U.S. District Court in Washington on charges of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute for purposes of unlawful importation.
		Mendes-Mesquita was arrested in November on his ranch in northeastern Paraguay, which was used as a base of operations for his arms-for-cocaine trafficking activities, authorities said.
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	Paraguay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The name "Paraguay" is derived from the Guarani words "pará", meaning "this side" and "guay", meaning "river".
		The front side contains the National Seal of Paraguay and the reverse contains the words "Paz y Justicia"(Peace and Justice) along with a lion and a Phyrgian Cap on a pole.
		Most of the country's imports come through the Brazilian port of Paranaguá by railway.
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Paraguay (1071 words)

	Elections in Paraguay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Paraguay (Spanish/Guarani: Paraguay) is a country in South America.
		Paraguay has a population of around 6 million on 397300 km².
		Freedom House rated the country on political rights with a 4 and on civil rights with a 3, both on a scale of 1 to 7 (in which 1 is the most free).
	www.electionworld.org /paraguay.htm (320 words)

	Paraguay Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the late 1980s, Paraguay was an authoritarian regime under the personalistic control of Stroessner.
		Indeed, not only did Stroessner continue the authoritarian tradition of these three nineteenthcentury dictators and the twentieth-century example of Estigarribia and Higinio Morínigo, he also remained in office for more than three decades.
		The political instability of the immediate postwar period, culminating in the civil war in 1947, offered important lessons for most Paraguayans.
	www.country-studies.com /paraguay/politics.html (254 words)

	HLAS 51 Government and Politics Argentina Paraguay Uruguay
		The great bulk of the political literature to appear in the last two years concentrates on three important aspects of that question: 1) how can democracy be institutionalized; 2) how can the military be fitted into the new system; and 3) how well has democracy performed under the Administration of President Raúl Alfonsín?
		Paraguay, as usual, attracts the fewest serious political science studies.
		By the same token, it is anticipated that the long-standing and steady output of fawning praise for Gen. Stroessner by Colorado Party writers is coming to an end.
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	POLITICS-PARAGUAY: Murder Plot, Rumours Re-Route the President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But political analysts and leaders of the opposition said they doubt the reliability of the intelligence report, and some suggested it could be an attempt by the government itself to shift the public's attention away from the headlines that are tarnishing its image.
		He was referring to the theft of war materials and the implication of the armed forces in that crime, and to the police killing two peasant farmers last Friday in a crackdown on a protest against chemical fumigation of genetically modified soya crops.
		Argaña, who was vice-president, was murdered in 1999, triggering a political crisis that left four people dead, more than a hundred wounded, and led to the resignation of then-president Rául Cubas.
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	Latin Trade: A Not So Picture Perfect Paraguay
		The political storm prompted a weekend of rioting, leaving six people dead and hundreds injured in a country that is home to about 6 million people, and where democracy is barely a decade old.
		Paraguay's new president, Luis Gonzalez Macchi, has vowed to extradite Cubas and Line Oviedo, a former Army chief and leader of a 1996 coup attempt, who fled to Argentina in March, too.
		The political fallout in Paraguay has not swayed the thinking at Standard & Poor's, perhaps because the international credit agency never had a very high opinion of Paraguay's economy.
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	Paraguay
		Eastern Paraguay, between the Paraná and Paraguay rivers, is upland country with the thickest population settled on the grassy slope that inclines toward the Paraguay River.
		Paraguay was governed by three dictators during the first 60 years of independence.
		Paraguay's government sought to clean up the political system by bringing to trial political and military figures suspected of human rights violations, corruption, or other crimes.
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	BBC News \| From Our Own Correspondent \| Politics in Paraguay
		Presidential elections are due in three months' time in the South American republic of Paraguay, but the candidate of the governing Colorado Party, Lino Oviedo, is being held prisoner at a military barracks in the capital, Asuncion.
		It was going to be an interesting interview, I thought, I'd come to see one of Paraguay's opposition politicians, a lawyer named Hermes Rafael Saguier, to ask him how he felt about the continuing crisis within the Colorado Party.
		And yet, in the case of Paraguay, the divorce between politics and daily life is so complete that I'm almost tempted to indulge in a bit of politician-bashing myself.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/from_our_own_correspondent/57417.stm (985 words)

	Peace Corps Online \| October 21, 2004: Headlines: COS - Paraguay: Politics: Election2004 - Wight: Oregon Live: Paraguay ...
		October 21, 2004: Headlines: COS - Paraguay: Politics: Election2004 - Wight: Oregon Live: Paraguay RPCV John Wight, the Republican candidate, wants a cap on state funding tied to population growth and inflation in race for Oregon State Senate
		Paraguay RPCV John Wight, the Republican candidate, wants a cap on state funding tied to population growth and inflation in race for Oregon State Senate
		From 1999 to 2001, Wight was a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay.
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	Paraguay: democratization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Stronismo, post-stronismo, and the prospects for democratization in Paraguay / University of Notre Dame.
		Drug addiction and trafficking in Paraguay : an approach to the problem during the transition.
		In the euphoria over democratization in Latin America this article repeats an often forgotten fact: Paraguay is one of the regions most long standing autoritarian regimes.
	www.eldis.org /ggov/latn_par.html (163 words)

	HLAS 53 Government and Politics Argentina Paraguay Uruguay
		Finally, on the subject of political culture, no observer is more original or insightful than Chafee (items bi 89003501 and bi 89004752).
		Uruguay also is more divided politically: in 1989 the conservative-nationalist Blanco Party won control of the national government while the leftist Frente Amplio took control of Montevideo's municipal government.
		There also is interest in tracing the roots of the stronato to the politics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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