He is imprisoned, much to the distress of the Paraguayan public. 1998: Raúl Cubas Grau elected under promise that Oviedo would be released, but does not perpetrate action. After his vice president Luis María Argaña is murdered with Cubas himself implicated, mass protests erupt in Asunción, with seven people killed by riot police. 1999: Cubas resigns. Oviedo flees to Argentina. Luis Ángel González Macchi elected president. 2003: Nicanor Duarte is elected president. 2004: Fire breaks out in the Ycuá Bolaños supermarket. 400 people killed and 500 injured. 2008: Fernando Lugo is elected president. After a 66-year era of conservative rule, the Colorado Party has been ousted from power. 2012: Federico Franco is elected president. 2013: Horacio Cartes is elected president in a return to power of the Colorado Party. 2018: Mario Abdo Benítez is elected president. His father was Stroessner's secretary. Paraguay Paraguay history-related lists