Chicago Open 2008: The End Comes…Beyond the Omega Point  EDITORS PACKET 1  
Chicago Open 2008: The End Comes…Beyond the Omega Point  EDITORS PACKET 1  (Ryan Westbrook, Matt Keller, Steven Canning)  Tossups  This ruler's right-hand men included intelligence chief Pastor Coronel and minister of the interior Edgar Ynsfran, whom he later dismissed. He was opposed by a coup of Mendéz Fleitas, the president of the Central Bank, whose supporters were dubbed epafanistas, and also by the Renovation Movement and the Febreristas, who had also fought against the earlier government of his mentor Higinio Moríngo. Just like Charles Meigs, this ruler spent a formative part of his life in the trunk of a car – he was captured in a coup and taken to a foreign embassy, which led him to be known as "Colonel Trunk." After taking power, he proclaimed a constitutional "state of siege" and renewed it every three months. Ousted in a coup led by Andres Rodrigues, FTP, name this man who came to power by overthrowing Federico Chavez in 1954, and was the head of the Colorado Party until 1989, the whole time serving as dictator of Paraguay.
Chicago Open 2008: The End Comes…Beyond the Omega Point  EDITORS PACKET 1  
Alfredo {Stroessner} Mattiauda