Paraguay

Flag of Paraguay

**Paraguay** Officially the **Republic of Paraguay** is a small country in South America as a buffer state between Argentina and Brazil. Paraguay is officially a Unitary Presidential Republic, however it has been placed underneath a military dictatorship witch is in turn a puppet to the Argentine regime. Paraguay lost the Chaco War to Bolivia and Argentina and suffered greatly for it, being put under joint administration by the two countries with Argentina being the senior partner. Paraguay was formed in the Spanish American Wars of Independence on the 11th of May 1811. Paraguay did not participate in the Second Weltkrieg for similar reasons as the rest of Latin America, they were very distant from these events. Paraguay is a member of the "Andean Pact" and thus it is forced to Align with the Reichspakt. But if the people got their way it would definitively switch.

## History

In 1936 Paraguay was riding off the of the high of its victory in the earlier Chaco war in the 1920s - 1930s against the Bolivian government and its military was very much popular, and the people adored it. However the Black Monday Crisis would tip Paraguay into something else as the people now believed that the Government was completely incompetent and they continued to trust the military and so around June of that year, Paraguay would undergo a popular revolt and its government would be replaced with a military government. However the Military Regime would prove to be even more corrupt than the old republican government and Paraguay would struggle for the next few years as the calls for the return of democracy would continue to grow louder and louder until they couldn't be ignored any longer. Paraguay's dictatorship was looking for a quick and easy way out of this and it got it's chance when Argentina declared war on Patagonia and Chile beginning the Patagonian War. Paraguay looked to gain some more land and it declared war on Argentina, however Bolivia would intervene and declare war on Paraguay hoping to regain lost land. What was supposed to be a clear and easy victory turned into a devastating defeat as Paraguay's advances were stopped rapidly and soon with the defeat of Chile, Argentina turned its army around and would encircle Paraguay. Soon a rapid offensive was launched by Bolivia and Argentina and they would take Asunción and the military government was forced into submission. Argentina would then decide to continue the Military Government but it would replace its military government with one administered by Bolivia and Argentina, putting in Higino Moríngo in charge. Bolivia would call for the annexation of all territory west of the Paraguay river however fierce resistance from the Argentine government would force Bolivia to back down. Paraguay has been caught in this limbo as it cannot make any decisions for itself and rather it acts as a jointly controlled territory of the two nations who constantly fight over the status of certain things. This means that Paraguay has in fact been unable to recover from the Black Monday Crisis and is now in fact the second poorest country in Latin America only behind Haiti. However the calls within Paraguay for true independnce are rising and the people are restless. The calls for a restoration of democracy in Paraguay have reached the ears of the entire world and Brazil is secretly supporting these Paraguayan rebels. Should this come to a head, it seems that Paraguay may end up being one of the first collection of conflicts in the wider Kalterkrieg. Thus what was once a small and pretty insignificant nation has reached international attention.

## Military

Paraguay's military is in a horrible state as the nation has been required to be demilitarized by the Argentine government who wishes to keep Paraguay from becoming a threat again. Its army has seen record low amounts of volunteers as the people no longer wish to be soldiers and the Army has lost its prestige. Due to the treaty of Buenos Aries, Paraguay is not allowed to have an air force or Navy if it ever stopped being landlocked.