Repressão e resistência : o governo Stroessner e os grupos de guerrilha 14 de Mayo e FULNA (1954-1970)

Abstract

The work in question has as an objective to understand the nature and the ideological roots of the guerrillas of the Movimiento 14 de Mayo, where liberals, Febreristas, and Frente Unida de Liberación Nacional (FULNA) participated, conceived by the Paraguayan Communist Party. These groups defeated the Alfredo Stroessner’s dictatorial government by force of arms from the late 50s to 1970, when the armed fight between the mentioned groups declined. The Alfredo Stroessner government intended to put all their opponents in a common place, accusing them of being traitors of their country by using the old legionaries’ image, a term used to remember the Paraguayans that opposed Solano López in the Triplice Aliança War, and helped Argentina, Paraguay’s enemy in the conflict. The transition emerged in the Cold War context, where the “legionaries” turned to be “communists”, which allowed Stroessner to label all his opponents as a members of an international plan to establish a communist regime in Paraguay. However, political groups that were against the Stroessner regime, were extremely opposed to the ideological and political project that they had to Paraguay, the fragmentations and the lack of articulation of the opponents show that the Political Culture influences in a decisive way the reality, crossing the symbolic limits.