DWI: Paraguay lost the Triple Alliance War

Had they lost the war, how would the Latin American political landscape look like? As we all know, after Paraguay managed to win the war, they managed to get unrestricted access to the Parana and Uruguay river and a few river forts. Besides Rio Grande and Santa Catalina got their independence and became Paraguayan puppets, just like Uruguay. This lead to the Paraguayan economic miracle, becoming one of the leading economies of the continent, rivalling only Venezuela-Colombia.

This also causes some butterflies later on. Would Brazil still have its Civil War and fall to a warlord period (remember that most historians claim that the defeat at the Triple Alliance War planted the seed for the Revolution)? Would the Chaco War still happen?And most importantly, would Paraguay still develop WMDs and be invaded by the US? (I know it's far-fetched, but hey, speculating is free)

Any ideas?
 
Well, the first thing that happens is Paraguay stops existing - Uruguay and Argentina are going to carve it up. And with a bigger Argentina that's just won a war is going to be a more aggressive, belligerent state (we'd probably have gone to war to keep the Falklands not long after) than the half-starved state in hoc to the British Empire and accepting our bases for 'protection'.

And that means no Anglo-Paraguay War in the 19th century, with all that meant.
 
Well, the first thing that happens is Paraguay stops existing - Uruguay and Argentina are going to carve it up. And with a bigger Argentina that's just won a war is going to be a more aggressive, belligerent state (we'd probably have gone to war to keep the Falklands not long after) than the half-starved state in hoc to the British Empire and accepting our bases for 'protection'.

And that means no Anglo-Paraguay War in the 19th century, with all that meant.

I'm not sure. Paraguay at that time might have been smaller than our modern-day Paraguay; but I don't think absolute annexation was possible. It would have taken only a genocide to make a Poland-like division concievable.
 
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