Sympathetic Paraguayan nationalists and foreign revisionist historians…

Sympathetic Paraguayan nationalists and foreign revisionist historians will, however, portray Solano López as a patriot who resisted to his last breath Argentine and Brazilian designs on Paraguay.

They will portray him as a tragic figure caught in a web of Argentine and Brazilian duplicity who mobilized the nation to repulse its enemies, holding them off heroically for five bloody, horror-filled years until Paraguay was finally overrun and prostrate.

From the 1930s, Paraguayans will regard Solano López as the nation's foremost hero.