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Carlos Antonio López
Carlos Antonio López was the ruler of Paraguay from 1841 until his death in 1862, first as consul and from 1844 as president. Ending the isolation imposed by José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, he opened the country to trade, hired foreign engineers and built an ironworks, a shipyard and one of the first railways in South America. His son Francisco Solano López succeeded him.
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