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October 22, 2024 71 mins

Turning Tides: Paraguayan War will discuss the War of the Triple Alliance, or López's War, as well as the effects of the war on South America and the rest of the world. The first episode, Let Them Come, will cover the period from 1864 to 1866, in which President Francisco Solano López of Paraguay invades Argentina and is forced back by the armies of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.

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Produced by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone in affiliation with AntiKs Entertainment.

Researched and written by Joseph Pascone

Edited and revised by Melissa Marie Brown

Intro and Outro created by Melissa Marie Brown and Joseph Pascone using Motion Array

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Episode 1 Sources:

1. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866-70, by Thomas L. Whigham

2. War in Paraguay, by George Thompson

3. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3200 B.C. to the Present: Fourth Edition, by R. Ernest Dupuy and Trevor N. Dupuy

4. Francisco Solano Lopez: Who Was This South American Napoleon?, by Ilyas Benabdeljalil, MA Int'l Relations, BA Political Science, https://www.thecollector.com/francisco-solano-lopez-paraguayan-war/

5. Unraveling the Distinction: Argentine vs. Argentinian – A Cultural Journey, by Jason Pittock, July 24th, 2023, https://argentineasado.com/argentine-vs-argentinian/#:~:text=When%20to%20use%20Argentine%20or,to%20Argentina%20and%20its%20people.

6. How Bolivian Indigenous Peoples Mobilized History for Social Change, by Benjamin Dangl, AKPRESS, May 19th, 2019, https://truthout.org/articles/how-bolivian-indigenous-peoples-mobilized-history-for-social-change/

7. Subtle Genocide Is Revisiting Cerro Rico, Bolivia, by Jan Lundberg, February 17, 2011, https://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/706/2/

8. Wikipedia

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