Military Coup Attempt

Though president Eusebio Ayala guided our country to victory in the war against Bolivia together with his right-hand man José Félix Estigarribia, he and his government are very much to blame for the war even happening in the first place, and there is large discontent towards him throughout the country. Now, many officers have declared themselves hostile to the complacent and weak liberal government, and lieutenant colonels Federico Wenman Smith and Camildo Recalde have occupied Asunción, and are demanding Eusebio Ayala's immediate resignation!