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Taking Of Encarnación
The Taking of Encarnación was an attempted anarchist occupation of Encarnación, Paraguay, in February 1931 as part of a larger plan to initiate a social libertarian (anarchist) revolution in the country. Event As part of a larger plan to initiate a social libertarian (anarchist) revolution in Paraguay, a group of workers and students attempted to proclaim a libertarian commune in Encarnación, Paraguay, Encarnación on February 20, 1931. They entered Paraguay by crossing the Paraná River from Posadas, Argentina. Led by Obdulio Barthe, Félix Cantalicio Aracuyú, and Facundo Duarte, and propelled by the ''Nuevo Ideario Nacional'', 150 anarchists and communists occupied Encarnación for 16 hours. A stray bullet from the occupation left Aracuyú badly wounded. The other components of the planned popular revolution, in Asunción and Villarrica, Paraguay, Villarrica, were foiled as their labor leaders were deported in the days preceding the action. Following the occupation, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encarnación, Paraguay
Encarnación () is a district and the capital city of Itapúa Department in Paraguay, located at the south-east of the department, on the right-hand (western) shore of the Paraná River, opposite Posadas, Argentina. The city has an area of 274 km2 and a population of 93,497 (2002 Census), and the Greater Encarnacion area has a population of over 225,000 according to a 2020 estimate. Encarnación is the third-largest city of Paraguay. The city was originally named ''Nuestra Señora de la Anunciación de Itapúa'', and is considered the capital of summer by most of its inhabitants. Encarnación is connected to the Argentine city of Posadas, Argentina, Posadas by the San Roque González de Santa Cruz Bridge and the Posadas-Encarnación International Train, International Train. The city is located on Route 1 (Paraguay), Route 1, some 370 km (225 miles) from Asunción, and located on Route 6 (Paraguay), Route 6, some 280 km (175 miles) from Ciudad del Este. Due to it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Posadas, Argentina
Posadas () is the capital city of the Argentine province of Misiones, in its south, at the far north-west of the country on the left bank of the Paraná River, opposite Encarnación, Paraguay. The city has an area of and a population of 324,756 (), and the Greater Posadas area has a population of over 359,609 according to a 2017 estimate. Posadas is the provincial centre of the government, culture and the economy. Furniture, tobacco, food, textiles and construction are its most important industries. Other important economic activities are commerce and services. Posadas is connected to the Paraguayan city of Encarnación by the San Roque González de Santa Cruz Bridge. The port, once of great economical importance, is used for sport vessels, carrier of passengers and some boats for sand transport. The city is located on National Route 12, some from Buenos Aires. The General José de San Martín Airport , at coordinates , is seven kilometres from the city, and features reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anarchist Uprisings
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that seeks to abolish all institutions that perpetuate authority, coercion, or hierarchy, primarily targeting the state and capitalism. Anarchism advocates for the replacement of the state with stateless societies and voluntary free associations. A historically left-wing movement, anarchism is usually described as the libertarian wing of the socialist movement (libertarian socialism). Although traces of anarchist ideas are found all throughout history, modern anarchism emerged from the Enlightenment. During the latter half of the 19th and the first decades of the 20th century, the anarchist movement flourished in most parts of the world and had a significant role in workers' struggles for emancipation. Various anarchist schools of thought formed during this period. Anarchists have taken part in several revolutions, most notably in the Paris Commune, the Russian Civil War and the Spanish Civil War, whose end marked the end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 In Paraguay
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. * January 30 – Charlie Chaplin comedy drama film ''City Lights'' receives its public premiere at the Los Angeles Theater with Albert Einstein as guest of honor. Contrary to the current trend in cinema, it is a silent film, but with a score by Chaplin. Critically and commercially successful from the start, it will place consistently in lists of films considered the best of all time. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong indus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 1931
The following events occurred in February 1931: Sunday, February 1, 1931 *The Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress voted unanimously to continue their civil disobedience campaign. Gandhi declared that all political prisoners must be released before the Congress would deal with the government. *Two anarchists were executed by firing squad in Buenos Aires for the bombing of the Italian consulate in 1928. *Born: Boris Yeltsin, former Soviet Communist politician and President of Russia from 1991 to 1999; in Butka, RSFSR, Soviet Union (d. 2007) Monday, February 2, 1931 *The foreign affairs committee of the Reichstag rejected a demand from Nazi deputies to have Germany withdraw from the League of Nations. *Born: **Dries van Agt, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1977 to 1982; in Geldrop (d. 2024) ** Les Dawson, English comedian; in Collyhurst, Manchester (d. 1993) ** Hillel Zaks, Polish-born Israeli rabbi, in Radun (d. 2015) Tuesday, February 3, 1931 *The Hawk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Casaccia
Benigno Gabriel Casaccia Bibolini (April 20, 1907 – November 24, 1980) was a Paraguayan novelist. He is considered the father of modern Paraguayan literature. Augusto Roa Bastos, another notable Paraguayan novelist, is quoted as saying “Gabriel Casaccia is the founder of modern Paraguayan narrative, which gives, in good measure, a fundamental character to all of his work and, to its author, the unusual merit of having launched the genre in a country which was fictionally unknown.” Life Casaccia was born in Asunción, Paraguay. He was the son of Benigno Casaccia and Margarita Bibolini, both Italian immigrants. He studied at the Colegio Nacional de la Capital, one of the most prestigious public high schools in the country, and finished his Law studies at Universidad Nacional de Asuncion. Cassacia then started work as a journalist, writing for ''El Liberal'', ''El Diario'' and several other magazines in Asunción before devoting himself entirely to fiction. During his first 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mensú
Mensú, also known as mineros, were indentured laborers of the rural, jungle yerba mate plantations in the Alto Paraná Department of Paraguay and Argentina from 1880 to 1950. Their inhospitable work conditions were the subject of social critics Rafael Barrett and Leopoldo Ramos Giménez Leopoldo Ramos Giménez was a libertarian anarchist and poet from Paraguay. He was a prominent critic of mensú yerba mate Yerba mate or yerba maté (), ''Ilex paraguariensis'', is a plant species of the holly genus native to South Ameri .... The term ''mensú'' comes from ''mensualero'', meaning "paid monthly". References {{reflist Indentured servitude in the Americas Yerba mate Labor in Paraguay Labor in Argentina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yerba Mate
Yerba mate or yerba maté (), ''Ilex paraguariensis'', is a plant species of the holly genus native to South America. It was named by the French botanist Augustin Saint-Hilaire. The leaves of the plant can be steeped in hot water to make a beverage known as mate (drink), mate. Brewed cold, it is used to make ''tereré''. Both the plant and the beverage contain caffeine. The indigenous Guaraní people, Guaraní and some Tupi people, Tupi communities (whose territory covered present-day Paraguay) first cultivated and consumed yerba mate prior to European colonization of the Americas. Its consumption was exclusive to the natives of only two regions of the territory that today is Paraguay, more specifically the departments of Amambay Department, Amambay and Alto Paraná Department, Alto Paraná. After the Jesuits discovered its commercialization potential, yerba mate became widespread throughout the province and even elsewhere in the Spanish Crown. Mate is traditionally consumed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steamboats
A steamboat is a boat that is marine propulsion, propelled primarily by marine steam engine, steam power, typically driving propellers or Paddle steamer, paddlewheels. The term ''steamboat'' is used to refer to small steam-powered vessels working on lakes, rivers, and in short-sea shipping. The development of the steamboat led to the larger steamship, which is a seaworthy and often ocean-going ship. Steamboats sometimes use the ship prefix, prefix designation SS, S.S. or S/S (for 'Screw Steamer') or PS (for 'Paddle Steamer'); however, these designations are most often used for steamships. Background Limitations of the Newcomen steam engine The first steamboat designs used Newcomen atmospheric engine, Newcomen steam engines. These engines were large, heavy, and produced little power, which resulted in an unfavorable power-to-weight ratio. The heavy weight of the Newcomen engine required a structurally strong boat, and the reciprocating motion of the engine beam required a compli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villarrica, Paraguay
Villarrica del Espíritu Santo (), is a city in Paraguay. Located in the middle of the Eastern Region of Paraguay, it is the capital and most populous city of Guairá Department. It is located to the center west of Guairá and is bordered to the east by the towns of Mbocayaty and Yataity, to the west by Itapé and Félix Pérez Cardozo, Paraguay, Félix Pérez, to the east by Colonia Independencia, Independencia, Ñumí and General Eugenio A. Garay, Garay, and to the south by San Salvador, Paraguay, San Salvador and Borja, Paraguay, Borja. Founded in 1570 by Seville, Sevillian Ruy Diaz Melgarejo, Ruy Díaz de Melgarejo, it is one of the oldest settlements in Paraguay. Nevertheless, the original foundation site was located within the extinct Spanish Empire, Spanish province of Guayra in what is now the state of Paraná (state), Parana in Brazil. The residents of Villarrica were forced to relocate seven times during a timespan of more than 100 years. These relocations were mainly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asunción
Asunción (, ) is the capital and the largest city of Paraguay. The city stands on the eastern bank of the Paraguay River, almost at the confluence of this river with the Pilcomayo River. The Paraguay River and the Bay of Asunción in the northwest separate the city from the Occidental Region of Paraguay and from Argentina in the south part of the city. The rest of the city is surrounded by the Central Department. Asunción is one of the oldest cities in South America and the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities#South America, longest continually inhabited area in the Río de la Plata Basin; for this reason it is known as "the Mother of Cities". From Asunción, Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish colonial expeditions departed to found other cities, including the second foundation of Buenos Aires, that of other important cities such as Villarrica, Paraguay, Villarrica, Corrientes, Santa Fe, Argentina, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Argentina, Córdoba, Santa Cruz de la Sie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuevo Ideario Nacional
''Nuevo Ideario Nacional'' (New National Ideology) is a 1929 insurrectionist proclamation made by young intellectuals of Paraguay that called for a social revolution to create an anarcho-syndicalist society. Contents The ''Nuevo Ideario Nacional'' called for a social revolution to create an anarcho-syndicalist society governed by decentralized popular assemblies and labor unions. It denounced existing Paraguayan political structures, Marxism, and the Nationalist Period's authoritarianism. The ''Nuevo Ideario Nacional'' wrote that present political parties and parliamentary politics served the elite rather than the people, and that the social revolution would become an ethnic conflict between the rural Guarani-speaking people and the European-influenced elite. Publication Young Paraguayan intellectuals published the proclamation in Asunción, Paraguay's capital city, in August 1929. It spread through the anarcho-syndicalist weekly newspaper ''La Palabra'', which published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
