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Paraguayan Civil War (1947)

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Asunción · Concepción · San Pedro · Caaguazú

Estimated casualties

8.0K – 50Kestimated dead

Estimates vary widely (commonly 20,000–30,000); chaotic records and mass displacement make figures uncertain.

SOURCEscholarly

A 1947 civil war in Paraguay pitting Higinio Morínigo's Colorado-backed government against a Febrerista-Liberal-Communist alliance, with 'barefoot' (pynandí) peasant militias suffering heavy losses. Government victory paved the way for Colorado dominance and Stroessner's later dictatorship.

Belligerents2

Paraguayan government (Colorado/Morínigo)
Febrerista-Liberal-Communist rebels

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 1

Battle of Asuncion1947

Sources

Wikipedia: Paraguayan Civil War (1947)
UCDP Conflict Encyclopedia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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