Regionalidades na América: aspectos da formação histórica, política e econômica do Paraguai antes da Guerra da Tríplice Aliança

Abstract

The objective is to analyze aspects the formation historical, political and economic of Paraguay before The War of the Triple Alliance. The analysis is conducted having by reference the foreign trade. That is, if sought in the literature an overview of the aspects that characterize the formation of Paraguay referencing where possible, the analysis based on secondary data related to international trade. The results show that the trajectory of the country was marked by the exports of products intensive in natural resources and intensive in work (especially those derived from the use of labor-work indigenous) among which stand out the yerba mate, wood, leather and, in counterpart the import the manufactured goods. Moreover, it is possible to identify that tax policy that focused on international trade relations ended up dulling the country's development throughout the colonial period, was also one of the main reasons for the revolution of independence and the isolationist policy adopted subsequently by the country