The
Paraguayan Liberal Party was a
Liberal partyLiberal Party is the name of dozens of political parties around the world. It usually designates a party that is ideologically liberal, meaning that they advocate individual rights and civil liberties, and sometimes left wing, meaning that they are reliant on governmental solutions to social and...
in
ParaguayParaguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay , is one of the two landlocked countries which lie entirely within the Western Hemisphere, the other being Bolivia, both in South America....
. It was founded during the 1880s to oppose the political dominance of
Bernardino CaballeroBernardino Caballero Melgarejo was the President of Paraguay from 1881 until 1886 and founder of the Colorado Party....
who founded the
Colorado PartyThe National Republican Association – Colorado Party is a political party in Paraguay, founded in 1887 by Bernardino Caballero. It is usually known as the Colorado Party. It was defeated in elections held in April 2008 after 61 years in power.- History :It initially ruled the country from 1887...
. Since then Colorados and Liberals have been competing for dominance of the country. The Liberal Party dominated the government of Paraguay from 1904 until the late 1930s, losing power largely due to the disastrous
Chaco WarThe Chaco War was fought between Bolivia and Paraguay over control of the northern part of the Gran Chaco region of South America, which was incorrectly thought to be rich in oil...
, in which Paraguay defeated Bolivia at great cost.
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The
Paraguayan Liberal Party was a
Liberal partyLiberal Party is the name of dozens of political parties around the world. It usually designates a party that is ideologically liberal, meaning that they advocate individual rights and civil liberties, and sometimes left wing, meaning that they are reliant on governmental solutions to social and...
in
ParaguayParaguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay , is one of the two landlocked countries which lie entirely within the Western Hemisphere, the other being Bolivia, both in South America....
. It was founded during the 1880s to oppose the political dominance of
Bernardino CaballeroBernardino Caballero Melgarejo was the President of Paraguay from 1881 until 1886 and founder of the Colorado Party....
who founded the
Colorado PartyThe National Republican Association – Colorado Party is a political party in Paraguay, founded in 1887 by Bernardino Caballero. It is usually known as the Colorado Party. It was defeated in elections held in April 2008 after 61 years in power.- History :It initially ruled the country from 1887...
. Since then Colorados and Liberals have been competing for dominance of the country. The Liberal Party dominated the government of Paraguay from 1904 until the late 1930s, losing power largely due to the disastrous
Chaco WarThe Chaco War was fought between Bolivia and Paraguay over control of the northern part of the Gran Chaco region of South America, which was incorrectly thought to be rich in oil...
, in which Paraguay defeated Bolivia at great cost. The Liberal Party has never recovered, and the Colorado Party kept power through military dictatorships until 1989, most notably the Alfredo Stroesner regime, which lasted from 1954 to 1989 and largely crushed opposition.
By the end of the Stroesner regime the Liberal Party of Paraguay no longer existed, but its political successor, the
Authentic Radical Liberal PartyThe Authentic Radical Liberal Party is a liberal party in Paraguay.The party is a member of Liberal International. At the last legislative elections, 27 April 2003, the party won 25.7 % of the popular vote and 21 out of 80 seats in the Chamber of Deputies of Paraguay and 24.3 %, leading to 12 out...
is the second largest political party in the country.