By Fernando Martínez Escobar.
The electoral strength obtained by the Colorado Party (ANR) in the elections of April 30 has revived the idea of the unification of the ANR in the government, but the idea of party unity is a myth that has been around for almost 40 years. Alfredo Stroessner’s regime had party unity as one of the bases on which it sustained its permanence, but that unity began to crack after the 1984 Colorado convention; it reached the point of no return in the 1987 convention and finally led to the alliance between a sector of the Armed Forces and the Traditionalist Colorado movement which overthrew Stroessner on February 3, 1989.