Word: asunci
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little but Lion hearted. But a fighting heart has not been enough. Today, despite occasional polygamy and a 70% illegitimacy rate, Paraguay's population is South America's smallest, barely a million, less than it was in 1865. Asunción (pop. 172,400) is the only capital in the new world without a public water system. It has no fire department either. Army & Navy garrisons do the firefighting, with a chance for looting as special inducement...
...Warrior. Like most Indian and warrior people, the Paraguayan dislikes work. He will cut down a tree, but his wife has to carry it home. He hates to garden, so subtropical Asunción imports most of its vegetables. He makes an average $6 a year selling cotton, the hides of cattle, yerba mat é(for Argentina's tea-like national drink) and tannin from quebracho. Politics is pretty new to him, and the big talk of an alliance with Argentina in a bloque austral is outside his world. But if Argentines, or anybody else, get fresh...
There was the customary pre-dawn prelude of machine-gun and mortar fire. Then troops from the capital garrison at Asunción moved in. In no time at all, as revolutions go, Army strongman Lieut. Colonel Benítez Vera had fled from his Campo Grande headquarters. Box score: five killed, scores wounded. By noon, as the official communiqué said, "absolute tranquillity" again reigned over Paraguay...
...Argentina and the U.S. Short time ago the Frente de Guerra (War Front), a pro-Argentine group of Army officers, decided that he had perched there long enough. Led by hatchet-faced Colonel Benitez Vera, the 3,000-man garrison of Campo Grande set out for the center of Asunción, a few miles away, riding in Lend-Lease jeeps and trucks, guarded by Lend-Lease airplanes. President Morinigo met them, yielded to their demands...
...Roque, quiet residential quarter of Paraguay's capital, Asunción, there was an atmosphere of uncommon agitation last week. Ragged newsboys chewing wild oranges filled the streets, shouting thickly "Votación National!" Huge posters announced the Revolutión Nacionalista Paraguaya. Beswastikaed cops patrolled the streets. To the Colegio Alemán continually went little groups of three or four ragged, sometimes barefoot, men, solicitously escorted by well-dressed attendants who passed them inside and went forth again to seek other groups. The Colegio Alemán is one of ten electoral centers in San Roque...