Kay. So he was a Caudillo. Basically a dictator in Latin America right after their revolutions who rose to power with the promise of reforms and may or may not have actually done these (Francia actually did quite a few), but still was rather dictatorial.
This guy did some good stuff. Fixed up Paraguay's agriculture system, stuff like that. But he made this law, toward the end of his rule (which was toward the end of his life, which may be the reason) that all citizens must wear a hat so that they could doff aforementioned hat in his presence. Were they not to wear a hat, they must carry a brim (I have no idea how that worked, but I'm imagining all these farmers with paper semi-circles in their back pockets) so they could hold it to their head and then take it away like they were taking off hats. Failure to comply was immediate arrest.
And though the majority liked him, supposedly, during his reign, after his death, all his furnature was burned and his body fed to caiman. Which I don't know if you have over there (I don't think we do) but they're like alligators. Though all the caudillos in all the latin american countries that I've looked at supposedly had majority support during their rule, all of them were hated after their deaths. Go figure.
So. He's fun. Just like the revolutionary Bernardo O'Higgins. Guess where he's from. Guess. Chile. Yeah. He has a great name. But we add Jose to the front, because like 90% of everybody mentioned in our killer Latin America book of doom is named Jose. And Jose Bernardo O'Higgins is funny.
And Alexandria is not doing her Chemistry work again. Bad. Bad. *falls asleep on computer desk*
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This guy did some good stuff. Fixed up Paraguay's agriculture system, stuff like that.
But he made this law, toward the end of his rule (which was toward the end of his life, which may be the reason) that all citizens must wear a hat so that they could doff aforementioned hat in his presence. Were they not to wear a hat, they must carry a brim (I have no idea how that worked, but I'm imagining all these farmers with paper semi-circles in their back pockets) so they could hold it to their head and then take it away like they were taking off hats. Failure to comply was immediate arrest.
And though the majority liked him, supposedly, during his reign, after his death, all his furnature was burned and his body fed to caiman. Which I don't know if you have over there (I don't think we do) but they're like alligators.
Though all the caudillos in all the latin american countries that I've looked at supposedly had majority support during their rule, all of them were hated after their deaths. Go figure.
So. He's fun. Just like the revolutionary Bernardo O'Higgins. Guess where he's from. Guess.
Chile. Yeah. He has a great name. But we add Jose to the front, because like 90% of everybody mentioned in our killer Latin America book of doom is named Jose. And Jose Bernardo O'Higgins is funny.
And Alexandria is not doing her Chemistry work again. Bad. Bad. *falls asleep on computer desk*