ABSTRACT
The Colorados were in power from 1887 until 1904 when the Liberals replaced them in a popular uprising. They remained in opposition to Liberal governments until the brief Febrerista interlude in 1936-37 and the sudden death in an accident of the war hero Marshal José Félix Estigarribia in 1940. They opposed the pro-Axis regime of Higinio Morínigo, until a Colorado/Partido Revolucionario Febrerista (PRF) coalition Government was installed in 1946 after the USA put pressure on the regime to oust fascist sympathizers. A series of coups and fraudulent elections followed, the PRF were edged out and the Colorados were the only legal party between 1947 and 1963.
