Word: morinigo
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...rebels seemed to have all but won the war. They had made a bold move in abandoning their base in Conception (TIME, Aug. 18), to strike down river against the capital of Asunción, 130 miles to the south. But as they smashed into the city, Dictator Higinio Morinigo's army got an unexpected shot in the arm: new arms and munitions...
...autumn sunlight Asuncion hardly looked like the capital of a nation caught in the throes of civil war. Indian women and heavily laden burros carried produce to market. Men loafed in the cafes, sipping small cups of coffee and yerba mate. The seedy Palacio Lopez, where Dictator Higinio Morinigo rules with his back to the nearby muddy Paraguay River, had the easy, unguarded air of an Illinois county courthouse...
...rebel headquarters, reported that the city swarmed with insurgent troops, "obviously in the last stages of preparation for a march on Asuncion." Before much blood was spilled (only one patrol clash had been reported), Government and rebels might still arrive at some kind of an understanding. Wily Dictator Morinigo was reported to have sent emissaries to the rebels. He also sent a mission to Buenos Aires to ask help from Argentina. If Buenos Aires gave him no hope (and there was no indication that it would), Morinigo would talk seriously with Concepcion...
After six years of dictatorship, in which nearly every human right has been abridged, Morinigo would have to hold out strong promises of better times to win the rebels and reunite the country. If appeasement failed, Paraguay might be in for a long civil war-although, with business already down 50%, the bets were against it. And there was always the chance, if Morinigo refused to make democratic concessions, that his own followers might decide that it was best for everyone to heave...
...only country in the hemisphere without at least a shadow parliament learned last week that it was going to get one-or the shadow of one. President Higinio Morinigo, Paraguay's dictator since 1940, announced that a Constituent Assembly would be elected by year's end. There might even be an opposition. Already the buff and pink mud walls of Asuncion were frescoed with the name of Colonel Rafael Franco (an ex-President who returned to Paraguay last month after the President opened concentration camp gates). Hammer-&-sickle were everywhere, for the Commies-all 300 of them...