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Almost by default. Chaves has become boss of one of the Americas' most complete dictatorships. After the presidency had changed hands four times in a year, Chaves, a self-educated lawyer and lifelong politico, engineered a coup that put bumbling Dr. Felipe Molas López, a 50-year...
Paraguay's 300,000-odd adult males found time on Easter Sunday to go through the motions of electing a President. To no one's surprise, they plumped for Felipe Molas López, the 49-year-old dentist who has run the government since Feb. 26, when...
General Rolón had lasted barely 30 days. His big mistake, after scheduling elections for April, was to invite Paraguay's thousands of political exiles to come home and vote. That was strictly contrary to the wishes of the dominant Colorado party, which ran last year's...
After consulting with their military friends, the party bosses decided not to wait until April. Saturday night, while General Rolón and most of his ministers were attending a wake for the Primate of Paraguay, the insiders ran off a swift and bloodless coup, installed Molas López...
This week the new President announced formation of an all-Colorado cabinet, and promised that the elections would be held. In plain words, Molas López would win unopposed-if he lasted that long.