Horacio Cartes

Horacio Cartes is a Paraguayan businessman and politician who served as president of Paraguay from 2013 to 2018 and leads the Colorado Party.

Mario Abdo Benítez: A Paraguayan politician who succeeded Cartes as president in 2018 and later led the Colorado Party’s opposing faction. Their rivalry divided the Colorado Party after Cartes’s presidency.
Colorado Party: A Paraguayan political party, formally the National Republican Association, that has dominated much of the country’s modern politics. Cartes won the presidency as its candidate and later became its central leader.
Grupo Cartes: A Paraguayan business conglomerate founded by Horacio Cartes with interests including tobacco, beverages, and banking. The group anchors Cartes’s business career and scrutiny of business ties to political power.
Paraguayan presidential reelection: The constitutional and political question of whether Paraguayan presidents may serve more than one term. Cartes’s bid to change the rules made reelection a defining conflict of his administration.
Santiago Peña: A Paraguayan economist and politician who became president in 2023 after Cartes backed his Colorado Party candidacy. Cartes’s support helped Peña secure the party’s presidential nomination.
2013 Paraguayan general election: The Paraguayan election in which Horacio Cartes won the presidency and the Colorado Party regained national power. It brought Cartes into office after five years of Colorado Party opposition.
Paraguayan tobacco industry: The industry that grows, manufactures, and trades tobacco products in Paraguay. Cartes built substantial business interests in tobacco before entering politics.
2017 Paraguayan protests: Protests in Asunción against a proposed constitutional amendment allowing presidential reelection. Demonstrations escalated after the Senate’s disputed approval of the amendment.
Nicanor Duarte Frutos: A Paraguayan politician who served as president from 2003 to 2008 and later led the Colorado Party. Like Cartes, he governed Paraguay as a Colorado Party president.
2017 Paraguayan constitutional crisis: A political crisis triggered by attempts to amend Paraguay’s constitution to permit presidential reelection. The proposed amendment would have allowed Cartes to seek another term.

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