Cándido Bareiro
President of Paraguay (1833-1880)
Cándido Pastor Bareiro Caballero (October 27, 1833 – September 4, 1880) was President of Paraguay from 27 November 1878 to 4 September 1880 and the leading politician of the post-war decade.
Bareiro served as ambassador and commercial agent for the Paraguayan government of Francisco Solano López government in Europe.
During the last months of Paraguayan War he returned to Paraguay in 1869 and entered politics, where he started a political movement that would result in creation of the Colorado Party. A strong ally of General Bernardino Caballero, he was elected president in 1878 with Caballero's help and died from a stroke after two years in office.
Early life
He was born on October 27, 1833 in Luque. Son of Jose Luis Bareiro Montiel and Felipa Mayor Dolores Caballero he was the grandson of the famous Paraguayan founding father of Independence, Pedro Juan Caballero. He went to a school managed by the Argentine teacher Juan Pedro Escalada. Bareiro benefited from the opening to the world which was initiated by the regime of Carlos Antonio López, with a group of other Paraguayan students on June 2, 1858, he sailed to Europe, where in London he finished his studies. He returned home in the middle of December 1863 and received a bonus of 200 pesos. In May 1865 he was awarded with the National Order of Merit.
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