Paraguay, a nation scarred by past wars and the monopoly of the Colorado Party

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Isolationism and past conflicts, such as the Triple Alliance War or the Chaco War, have defined the history of Paraguay. A nation where during the last decades one party, the Colorado, has maintained the almost uninterrupted monopoly of national politics, coming to dominate the country even under a dictatorship, that of Alfredo Stroessner (1954-1989).