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...Eminent Citizen" Rafael Franco, who seized the Presidency also by a bloodless coup in 1936, found himself somewhat less eminent, was "asked" to resign, because he refused to form a Cabinet amenable to the military. Law Professor Félix Paiva, Dean and Rector of the University of Asunción, Vice President in 1920, was named Provisional President...
...early cool of one morning, an army corps of jungle veterans mobilized around the chief square of Paraguay's capital of Asunción. At 7 o'clock they seized the railway station and two radio stations, broke off telephone, telegraph and rail communications and advanced on the Government forces in the nearby police headquarters. Against the veterans President Ayala had only the police and the crews of the Paraguayan Navy's five gunboats. The gunboats dropped shells into the square. The veterans replied with their old trench mortars. That night the President fled to a gunboat...