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{{Short description|Paraguayan politician and judge}}
{{family name hatnote|Decoud|Domecq|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = José Segundo Decoud
| image = J. Segundo Decoud.jpg
| office = [[Senate of Paraguay|Senator of Paraguay]]
| term_start = 28 September 1888
| term_end = 3
| office1 = Minister of Justice, Religion and Public Education of Paraguay
| term_start1 =
| term_end1 =
| successor1 = [[
| predecessor1 = José
| term_start2 =
| term_end2 =
| successor2 =
| predecessor2 = José Mateo Collar
| term_start3 = 25 November 1878
| office3 = [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Paraguay)|Minister of Foreign Affairs of Paraguay]]▼
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| successor3 = Fabio Queirolo▼
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▲| predecessor4 = Venancio López Carrillo
| term_start5 =
| term_end5 =
▲| predecessor5 = Agustín Cañete
| predecessor5 = [[Héctor Velázquez (physician)|Héctor Velázquez]]
| successor5 = Juan Crisóstomo Centurión▼
| term_start6 =
| term_end6 =
| predecessor6 = Benjamín Aceval▼
| successor6 = Benjamín Aceval
| term_start7 = 17 May 1871▼
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| term_end7 = 28 September 1888
| predecessor7 = [[Carlos Loizaga]]▼
| predecessor7 = Agustín Cañete
| office8 = [[Minister of Finance (Paraguay)|Minister of Finance of Paraguay]]▼
| term_start8 =
| term_end8 =
| predecessor8 =
| successor8 =
| office9 = [[Supreme Court of Justice of Paraguay|President of the Paraguayan Supreme Court of Justice]]▼
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▲| term_end9 = 11 July 1878
| successor9 =
| predecessor9 = Carlos Loizaga▼
| term_start10 = 25 November 1890
| term_end10 = 17 July 1891
| predecessor10 = José Tomás Sosa
| successor10 = Otoniel Peña
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| term_start11 = 14 December 1876
| term_end11 = 11 July 1878
| successor11 = José González Granado
|office12=[[List of ambassadors of Paraguay to Brazil|Paraguayan Ambassador to Brazil]]
|term_start12= {{dts|1892||}}
|term_end12= {{dts|1894||}}
| parents = {{plainlist}}
* [[Juan Francisco Decoud|Juan Francisco Decoud Berazategui]]
* María Luisa Concepción Domecq Grance
{{endplainlist}}
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1848|5|14}}
| spouse = María Benigna Peña Guanes
| birth_place = [[Asunción]], [[Paraguay]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1909|3|3|
| death_place = Asunción, [[Paraguay]]
| resting_place =
}}
'''José Segundo Decoud Domecq''' (14 May 1848 – 3 March 1909) was a Paraguayan politician, journalist, diplomat and military officer. He is often considered one of the foremost intellectuals of his generation,{{sfn|Warren|Warren|2014|pp= 302-303}}{{sfn|Prado|2022|p= 97-98}} and was also one of the first liberals of the country. Decoud was one of the founders of the long-standing [[Colorado Party (Paraguay)|Colorado Party]], having been its first vice-president and having written its founding instrument.{{sfn|Warren|Warren|2014|pp= 73-77}}
== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
Segundo Decoud was born in [[Asunción]] on 14 May 1848 to [[Juan Francisco Decoud]] and Maria Luisa Concepción Domecq during [[Carlos Antonio López]]'s rule. The Decouds were historically strong opponents to the López regime, and in the early 1850s the execution of his uncles Teodoro and Gregorio due to treason forced his family into exile.
Together with his brother Juan José, he studied at the [[Colegio del Uruguay]] in [[Entre Ríos Province|Entre Ríos]], Argentina{{sfn|Calzada|1913|p= 10}} and later joined the law school at the [[University of Buenos Aires]].{{sfn|Calzada|1913|p= 17}} With the outbreak of the [[Paraguayan War]], however, he abandoned his studies and enlisted into the [[Paraguayan Legion]], a military unit formed out of oppositionists of [[Francisco Solano López]] in [[Buenos Aires]] in 1865, though he left the unit before the war ended.{{sfn|Calzada|1913|p= 12
=== Political life ===
Months before the war was over, and with the chief Brazilian diplomat [[José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco|Silva Paranhos]]' approval,
One of his most important feats was achieved in 1885, when he went to [[London]] as an extraordinary envoy and managed to renegotiate Paraguay’s debt there from little short of 3 million pounds sterling to 850 thousand, though the country had to cede 8,700 km<sup>2</sup> of land to the bondholders in exchange.{{sfn|Prado|2022|p= 45}} As a diplomat, he also represented Paraguay as ambassador to the [[Empire of Brazil]] and to the Uruguayan government. Besides this, he was one of the founders, alongside ex-president [[Bernardino Caballero]] and others, of the Colorado Party in 1887, to which he contributed many years as its main ideologue.{{sfn|Warren|Warren|2014|p= 73}} The foundation of the country’s first university, the [[Universidad Nacional de Asunción]], was in good part motivated by him, as well.{{sfn|Warren|Warren|2014|pp= 299-300}}<ref name="auto11">{{Cite web |url=https://una.py/images/stories/Investigacion/revistas/vol2.pdf |title=UNA 120 años de historia - Volumen II |access-date=2020-04-04 |archive-date=2021-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519032809/https://una.py/images/stories/Investigacion/revistas/vol2.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Some controversies marked his career. He was one of the foremost advocates for the process of land sales by the government conducted from 1883 onwards,{{sfn|Warren|Warren|2014|pp= 170}} which served to concentrate land ownership rapidly and which had a somewhat short-lived impact in the country’s finances;{{sfn|Prado|2022|pp=90-98}} he also was accused of having plotted with Argentine authorities in the 1870s to allow for Paraguay’s annexation to the former country.{{sfn|Warren|Warren|2014|p= 101}} In the 1890s he would still occupy many cabinet positions and was considered for the presidency, but intrigues kept him from power,{{sfn|Warren|Warren|2014|pp=92-93}} as they had more than once done in the decades before.▼
▲Some controversies marked his career. He was one of the foremost advocates for the process of land sales by the government conducted from 1883 onwards,{{sfn|Warren|Warren|2014|pp= 170}} which served to concentrate land ownership rapidly and which had a short-lived impact in the country’s finances;{{sfn|Prado|2022|pp=90-98}} he also was accused of having plotted with Argentine authorities in the 1870s to allow for Paraguay’s annexation to the former country.{{sfn|Warren|Warren|2014|p= 101}} In the 1890s he would still occupy many cabinet positions and was considered for the presidency, but intrigues kept him from power,{{sfn|Warren|Warren|2014|pp=92-93}} as they had more than once done in the decades before.
===Journalistic career===
José Segundo Decoud began his career in press soon after his return to Paraguay. Together with his brother Héctor Decoud, he started to work as editor and writer for the newspaper ''[[La Regeneración (Paraguay)|La Regeneración]]'' in 1869, which lasted until
In 2014, the historian and diplomat Ricardo Scavone Yegros made a compilation of Decoud’s works and published them together with a critical study.
===Death===
Disillusioned with the direction of post-war Paraguayan politics, Decoud committed suicide in
{{Blockquote|text=The citizens of classical antiquity preferred death to a sterile life cut short by the low passions of men. I have thus conceived the idea of an immolation, as a personal sacrifice before the sacred area of the Homeland. Hopefully this holocaust closes the list of those who, having given their whole lives, also succumb offering their own death! Let the dead bury their dead!}}
His suicide letter to his wife can be read in [[Francisco Doratioto|Francisco Doratioto's]] ''Una relación compleja, Paraguay y Brasil 1889-1954''.
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===Sources===
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* {{cite book|last=Centurión|first=Carlos R.|year=1947|title=Historia de las letras paraguayas|publisher=Ayacucho}}
* {{cite book|last=Decoud|first=Hector F.|year=1925|title=Una década de vida nacional|publisher=H. Kraus|isbn=978-9-995-30859-9}}
* {{cite journal|last=Doratioto|first=Francisco|year=2005|title=Guerra e regeneração: três estudos sobre o Paraguai|volume=9|issue=2|journal=Diálogos|publisher=Universidade Católica de Brasília|doi=10.4025/dialogos.v9i2.157 |url=https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/Dialogos/article/view/41398/21714|language=pt|doi-access=free}}
* {{cite book|last=Mosqueira|first=Silvano|year=1908|title=Semblanzas paraguayas|publisher=H. Kraus}}▼
* {{cite book|last=
* {{cite book|title=Catálogo de la Biblioteca Paraguaya "Solano López"|year= 1906|publisher=H. Kraus|isbn=978-0-274-43730-6}}
▲* {{cite book|last=Mosqueira|first=Silvano|year=1908|title=Semblanzas paraguayas|publisher=H. Kraus}}
* {{cite book|title=Paraguay and the Triple Alliance: The Postwar Decade, 1869-1878|last1=Warren |first1= H.G.|last2=Warren |first2= K.F.|date=2014|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=9781477306994|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fa50BQAAQBAJ&pg=PT67|access-date=2017-01-07}}▼
* {{cite book|last=Prado|first=Mário L. F.|title=O Processo de Recuperação Econômica do Paraguai após a Guerra da Tríplice Aliança (1870 - 1890)|year= 2022|publisher=Universidade de São Paulo}}
▲* {{cite book|title=Paraguay and the Triple Alliance: The Postwar Decade, 1869-1878|last1=Warren |first1= H.G.|last2=Warren |first2= K.F.|date=2014|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=9781477306994|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fa50BQAAQBAJ&pg=PT67|access-date=2017-01-07}}
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* {{cite book|last=Zubizarreta|first=Carlos|year=1961|title=Cien vidas paraguayas|publisher=Nizza|isbn=978-9-995-30281-8}}
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