Lino Oviedo

Lino Oviedo, the country’s military strongman who had helped topple Stroessner in 1989, to step down as the army chief. When Oviedo threatened a military coup, Wasmosy promised Oviedo the position of defense minister. Many Paraguayans accused Wasmosy of compromising a civilian government, and they…

Lino Oviedo soon emerged as a major figure. He engineered the selection of Juan Carlos Wasmosy as the candidate of the Colorado Party in the 1993 presidential elections; Wasmosy won the election and became Paraguay’s first civilian president since 1954. But Oviedo and Wasmosy had…