José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia

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What Wikipedia says

José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco (6 January 1766 – 20 September 1840), also known as Doctor Francia or to Paraguayans of his time as Karai Guasu, was a lawyer, politician, statesman and the first dictator (1814–1840) of Paraguay following its 1811 independence from the Spanish Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.

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