After 250 years of Spanish rule, and the overthrow of the Spanish King by Napoleon, Paraguay finally became independent in 1811, and in fact, was one of the first countries on the continent to do so.. Independence in Paraguay fathered dictatorships, revolutions, coups and brutal military rule, as well as a number of costly wars.

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