History of Paraguay Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Alfredo Stroessner. When a revolt at the Asunción Navy Yard put a strategic working-class neighborhood in rebel hands, Stroessner's regiment quickly reduced this area to rubble. When rebel gunboats threatened to dash upriver from Argentina to bombard the capital into submission, Stroessner's forces battled furiously and destroyed them. By the end of the rebellion in August 1948 the Colorado Party, which had been out of power since 1904, had almost total control in Paraguay. The fighting had simplified politics by eliminating all other parties and by reducing the size of the army. As 90% of the officer
Cinema of Paraguay the bill of Audiovisual Promotion, with which the National Film Institute of Paraguay could be created. This list covers non-Paraguayan films (many Argentine or Brazilian) that were filmed, or partly filmed, there. This list covers non-Paraguayan films that deal with Paraguayan issues/topics, but are not filmed there. It also covers films in which Paraguay is made reference to. Cinema of Paraguay The cinema of Paraguay has historically been small. However, this has begun to change in recent years with films like "El Toque del Oboe" (1998); "María Escobar" (2002); "O Amigo Dunor" (2005), which competed for Best Movie in the