The Paraguayan Legionnaires are a motley collection…

The Paraguayan Legionnaires are a motley collection of refugees and exiles who date from Francia's day.

Their opposition to tyranny is sincere, and they gravitate toward democratic ideologies.

Coming home to backward, poor, xenophobic Paraguay from cosmopolitan, prosperous Buenos Aires is a big shock for the Legionnaires

Believing that more freedom will cure Paraguay's ills, they abolish slavery and found a constitutional government as soon as they come to power.

They base the new government on the standard liberal prescriptions of free enterprise, free elections, and free trade.