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The citizens of classical antiquity preferred death to a sterile life cut short by the low passions of men. I have thus conceived the idea of an immolation, as a personal sacrifice before the sacred area of the
Homeland. Hopefully this holocaust closes the list of those who, having given their whole
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having plotted with
Argentine authorities in the 1870s to allow for Paraguay’s annexation to the former country. In the 1890s he would still occupy many cabinet positions and was considered for the presidency, but intrigues kept him from power, as they had more than once done in the decades before.
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was created with
Segundo as a secretary. The club was a liberal political organization mostly composed by former members of the Paraguayan Legion and other dissenters to the López regime. Already being an important figure in postwar Asunción due to his name and ideas, Decoud was named one of the
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as an extraordinary envoy and managed to renegotiate
Paraguay’s debt there from little short of 3 million pounds sterling to 850 thousand, though the country had to cede 8,700 km of land to the bondholders in exchange. As a diplomat, he also represented Paraguay as ambassador to the
582:(14 May 1848 – 3 March 1909) was a Paraguayan politician, journalist, diplomat and military officer. He is often considered one of the foremost intellectuals of his generation, and was also one of the first liberals of the country. Decoud was one of the founders of the long-standing
611:'s rule. The Decouds were historically strong opponents to the López regime, and in the early 1850s the execution of his uncles Teodoro and Gregorio due to treason forced his family into exile.
744:, published in 1905. When he died, in 1909, it is said that he had been preparing for some years to write a book that would discuss Paraguayan history from the colonial era to his time.
671:. Afterwards, as Paraguayan politics took a violent turn, Decoud withdrew temporarily from them to focus on his career as a journalist, and returned only in 1878 as minister for the
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José Segundo Decoud began his career in press soon after his return to
Paraguay. Together with his brother Héctor Decoud, he started to work as editor and writer for the newspaper
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Colorado Party in 1887, to which he contributed many years as its main ideologue. The foundation of the country’s first university, the
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Paraguayan politics, Decoud committed suicide in 1909, leaving a letter to his wife, in which he stated:
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Ricardo Scavone Yegros made a compilation of Decoud’s works and published them together with a critical study.
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Paraguayan politics.
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September 1870. Throughout the 1870s and 1880s he contributed to other newspapers such as
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and to the Uruguayan government. Besides this, he was one of the founders, alongside ex-president
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O Processo de Recuperação Econômica do Paraguai após a Guerra da Tríplice Aliança (1870 - 1890)
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lives, also succumb offering their own death! Let the dead bury their dead!
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One of his most important feats was achieved in 1885, when he went to
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The Science of Government in Connection with American Institutions
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Paraguay and the Triple Alliance: The Postwar Decade, 1869-1878
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Minister of Justice, Religion and Public Education of Paraguay
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members of the constitutional assembly that created the
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in 1865, though he left the unit before the war ended.
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President of the Paraguayan Supreme Court of Justice
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769:Una relación compleja, Paraguay y Brasil 1889-1954
634:, a military unit formed out of oppositionists of
729:to Spanish, and wrote books and articles such as
1287:Ensayos sobre cuestiones políticas y económicas
1205:Historia contemporánea del Paraguay (1869-1920)
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31: and the second or maternal family name is
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74:28 September 1888 – 3 March 1909
1188:(2). Universidade Católica de Brasília.
1122:La Segunda Republica Paraguaya 1869-1906
439:14 December 1876 – 11 July 1878
401:25 November 1890 – 17 July 1891
189:11 July 1871 – 11 November 1871
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967:"UNA 120 años de historia - Volumen II"
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217:Minister of Foreign Affairs of Paraguay
156:25 November 1878 – 9 July 1879
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883:(in Spanish). ANR - Partido Colorado.
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566:María Luisa Concepción Domecq Grance
123:15 April 1898 – 4 June 1898
90:2 March 1899 – 8 March 1899
1258:Warren, H.G.; Warren, K.F. (2014).
359:17 May 1871 – 11 July 1871
229:9 June 1895 – 19 June 1900
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1379:Ambassadors of Paraguay to Brazil
1150:Historia de las letras paraguayas
738:Cuestiones Políticas y Económicas
562:Juan Francisco Decoud Berazategui
1354:Ministers of finance of Paraguay
887:from the original on 16 May 2022
693:Universidad Nacional de Asunción
465:Paraguayan Ambassador to Brazil
389:Minister of Finance of Paraguay
16:Paraguayan politician and judge
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1264:. University of Texas Press.
1176:Doratioto, Francisco (2005).
1148:Centurión, Carlos R. (1947).
1364:People of the Paraguayan War
1304:Zubizarreta, Carlos (1961).
1253:. Universidade de São Paulo.
23:, the first or paternal
1285:Yegros, Ricardo S. (2014).
1249:Prado, Mário L. F. (2022).
1240:Mosqueira, Silvano (1908).
1159:Una década de vida nacional
1120:Aquino, Ricardo C. (1985).
626:. With the outbreak of the
599:Segundo Decoud was born in
541:Recoleta Cemetery, Asuncion
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1203:Esteves, Gomes F. (1983).
1157:Decoud, Hector F. (1925).
624:University of Buenos Aires
580:José Segundo Decoud Domecq
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1289:. Tiempo de Historia.
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1306:Cien vidas paraguayas
1242:Semblanzas paraguayas
877:"José Segundo Decoud"
766:Francisco Doratioto's
605:Juan Francisco Decoud
459:José González Granado
274:Venancio Victor López
210:Domingo Antonio Ortiz
111:Venancio Víctor López
731:Recuerdos históricos
689:Bernardino Caballero
609:Carlos Antonio López
382:Bernardino Caballero
956:, pp. 299–300.
794:, pp. 302–303.
703:Journalistic career
616:Colegio del Uruguay
62:Senator of Paraguay
42:José Segundo Decoud
1225:. H. Kraus. 1906.
1065:. H. Kraus. 1906.
719:La Opinión Pública
603:on 14 May 1848 to
1349:Paraguayan judges
1315:978-9-995-30281-8
1296:978-9-996-76096-9
1232:978-0-274-43730-6
1214:978-9-992-55043-4
1184:(in Portuguese).
1168:978-9-995-30859-9
1094:, pp. 62–63.
1035:, pp. 92–93.
1011:, pp. 90–98.
920:, pp. 41–45.
818:, pp. 73–77.
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21:Spanish name
1339:1909 deaths
1334:1848 births
1244:. H. Kraus.
1152:. Ayacucho.
906:Aquino 1985
864:Decoud 1925
735:La amistad,
507:14 May 1848
445:Preceded by
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1277:2017-01-07
1078:2022-10-30
1009:Prado 2022
983:2020-04-04
930:Prado 2022
918:Prado 2022
891:31 October
881:anr.org.py
804:Prado 2022
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