 Complete the following phrase:  Since the establishment of the office of President of the Republic in 1844, during the family dictatorship of the López family 18411870, Paraguay had 51 presidents. Between the end of the Paraguayan War in 1870 and the 1954 coup détat, the country changed 44 presidents; 24 of them were removed from power by force. Eventually, Army General Alfredo Stroessner, supported by the Armed Forces and the right-wing Colorado Party, seized power in the 1954 coup détat. Relying on the military and the party as the twin pillars of his rule, and ruling in the single-party system until 1962, Stroessner was elected for eight consecutive terms before being ousted from power in the 