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The Main Chance; A real-life caudillo and his mistress help plunge a country into ruin.
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THE NEWS FROM PARAGUAY
By Lily Tuck. HarperCollins. 248 pp. $23.95
In 1864, the landlocked country of Paraguay went to war against
three of its neighbors at once. Reports from the troops of Brazil,
Argentina and Uruguay (then known as the Banda Oriental) described
the hopelessly outnumbered Paraguayan soldiers as ferocious and
stubborn and loyal to their flamboyant ruler, Francisco Solano Lopez,
even as they died in heaps.
Lopez's cause was as obscure as it was doomed, involving mostly
his outsized ego and delusions of adequacy. The War of the Triple
Alliance nonetheless lasted five years, ...
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