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Paraguay is officially known as the Republic of Paraguay. It is an inland country in the South America. Paraguay is situated on both the banks of the Paraguay River, which borders Argentina in the south and southwestern parts. It shares its borders with Brazil in the eastern and northeastern parts and Bolivia is in the northwest of Paraguay. It is situated at the center of South America. The name Paraguay is deduced from the Guaraní word pararaguay which means, from a great river. The great river is actually the Paraná River, which creates a huge amount of hydroelectric power all over the world.
The Europeans first visited Paraguay in the earlier parts of the sixteenth century and the settlement of Asunción was established on the 15th of August, 1537 by Juan de Oñate, the Spanish explorer. The city then became the central point of a Spanish colonial province and a major site of the Jesuit settlement and mission in South America in the 18th century. Jesuit Reductions were established and flourished in east of Paraguay for some one hundred and fifty years until they got destructed by the Spanish crown in the year, 1767. The independence of Paraguay was declared after the overthrow of the local Spanish authorities in the 14th of May, 1811.
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The history of Paraguay has been qualified by large periods of political instability, authoritarian governments and infighting, and destructive wars with its neighbors. The politics of Paraguay takes place in a model of a presidential representative democratic republic. The President of Paraguay is the head of government and the head of state, and of a pluriform a large number of party systems. The power of executive is exercised by the government.
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Legislative power is enthroned on the two chambers of the National Congress and the government. Independent judiciary is there in Paraguay which functions on its own without any influence of the legislative and the executive.
After the end of the World War II, the political condition of Paraguay became very much unstable. In the later parts of the 1980s, Paraguay was a dictatorial regime under the rule of Alfredo Stroessner, who had control over it for more than three decades. Stroessner acquired power because of an open and unstable period in the history of Paraguay. The instability in the politics after the war also paved the way for a civil war in the year, 1947.
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