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TIL about Andrés Rodríguez Pedotti, a Paraguayan army major general who launched a coup against the dictator Alfredo Stroessner, successfully managed to overthrow and exile him, re-democratized Paraguay, signed a Paraguayan constitution with presidential term limits into law, and then stepped down.

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