2-547-297 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Colonel Albino Jara, Paraguayan soldier and politician, 1911. Jara (1877-1912) became provisional President of Paraguay in January 1911 after he led a military coup against the government of Manuel Gondra. He was in turn overthrown by another coup in July the same year. Jara was killed the following year during an attempt to regain power. A print from Picturesque Paraguay by Alexander K MacDonald, Charles H Kelly, London, 1911.