Change is in the Air for Paraguay

Written by: DFA Staff on Apr 21, 2008 3:45 PM EDT

Karl Rove could only dream of a 61-year lock on power, but that is exactly what the Colorado Party had been able to do in Paraguay...until now.  McClatchy reports:

A former Roman Catholic bishop scored a historic win Sunday in this country's presidential election, ending the 61-year reign of what had been the world's longest ruling party.

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Sunday's election ends a Colorado lock on power in this 6.8 million-person country that began in 1947, when the party seized control after a bloody civil war. The Colorado period also included the 35-year regime of dictator Alfredo Stroessner, who was ousted in a 1989 coup.

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