Febrerista Revolution

The Febrerista Revolution (in Spanish, Revolución del 17 de febrero de 1936) was an event that took place in Paraguay after the Chaco War. It was one of the many coup d'etats in Paraguayan history.

The government made by the "Victory Cabinet", consecrated after the victory of Paraguay in the Chaco War, was deposed by a movement which was supported by a wide spectrum of various social sectors, including the Colorado Party, socialists, the Paraguayan military, anarchists, as well as the National Independent League, one which presented itself as a new political alternative, outside of the dominant bipartisanism. At the start of the revolution, there also arose the National Revolutionary Union in November 1936 that years later became the Partido Revolucionario Febrerista (The Revolutionary Febrerista Party).

The revolution has been described as a "joint Marxist and fascist coup" which "laid the groundwork for the pro-Nazi dictatorship of Higinio Morínigo in 1940".^[1]

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