Aires. In 1950 he went to Mexico. He was the last intellectual to hold the presidency of the Republic in the twentieth century. Death Natalicio died in Mexico on 6 December 1966, of a heart attack. He had been invited back to Paraguay and was to leave that very day. His wife Lydia committed suicide after finding his body. (She swallowed painkillers and cut her wrists.) References Publications at the newspaper ABC Color. 1897 births 1966 deaths People from Villarrica, Paraguay Paraguayan people of Spanish descent Paraguayan writers Paraguayan historians Paraguayan geographers Paraguayan sociologists Colorado Party (Paraguay) politicians Presidents of Paraguay Finance Ministers of Paraguay Paraguayan expatriates in Mexico Paraguayan expatriates in Argentina 20th-century historians 20th-century geographers