The Colorado Party fighting for power in Paraguay in the 21st century: continuities and changes

Abstract

The article considers the resources and strategies thanks to which the National Republican Association - Colorado Party – one of the eldest right-wing parties in the Latin American region – stays in power in the modern Paraguay. Against the regional background of today, the Colorado Party is, firstly, a traditional influencer and not a “newcomer” from the populist sector; secondly, it can be considered as an original right conservative one – both in economic and political spheres from the perspective of the West – and this fact actually does not hinder it to be the most long-lasting ruling political force in its country. This study, based on the historical-descriptive, historical-systemic, problematic-chronological approaches, as its hypothesis has the idea that, among the internal and external factors contributing to the Colorado’s monopoly, the well-timed reconfigurations of its ideological project, associated with some new leaders and internal factions, do play the crucial role.