Tag: Horacio Cartes

• Thursday, March 23rd 2023 - 10:29 UTC

  New team of prosecutors to investigate former Paraguayan President Cartes

  

  A new team of prosecutors created this week by Attorney General Emiliano Rolón will investigate former Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes for alleged false statements in the Pandora Papers inquiry and for his involvement in the operations of the Venezuelan-Iranian Boeing 747-300 freighter and its 18 crew members.

• Friday, January 27th 2023 - 10:16 UTC

  Cartes and Velázquez have ties to Hezbollah, US gov't says

  

  Former Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes and current Vice President Hugo Velázquez have ties to the terrorist group Hezbollah, US Ambassador to Asunción Marc Ostfield said Thursday during a press conference.

• Wednesday, January 11th 2023 - 21:27 UTC

  Cartes takes over as Paraguay's Colorado Party chairman

  

  Former Paraguayan President Horacio Cartés was sworn in Tuesday afternoon as Chairman of the National Republican Association (ANR - also known as Colorado Party), replacing Congressman and Vice-Presidential hopeful Pedro Alliana.

• Friday, October 28th 2022 - 10:23 UTC

  Argentina to disregard EBY deal between Cartes and Macri

  

  Argentina's Economy Ministry told Paraguayan authorities at the Binational Yacyretá Entity (EBY) that the agreement between former Presidents Horacio Cartes and Mauricio Macri will no longer be put for consideration before Congress in Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, September 8th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  Football fans want former Paraguayan president extradited to US

  

  Paraguayan football fans supporting Olimpia chanted Wednesday evening “extradition for Horacio” in reference to former President Horacio Cartés' designation by the US State Department as “significantly corrupt.”

• Thursday, August 25th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  US envoy discusses corruption with Paraguayan lawmakers

  

  The US Undersecretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Mark Wells Wednesday said in Asunción that his country would undertake further action beyond declaring Paraguayan Vice President Hugo Velázquez and former President Horacio Cartés as “significantly corrupt.”

• Monday, August 22nd 2022 - 09:39 UTC

  Abdo would prefer Velázquez to resign as Paraguay's VP

  

  Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez believes Vice President Hugo Velázquez should resign and avoid his impeachment in which his political opponents from within their own Colorado Party might seek to splash the head of state.

• Monday, August 15th 2022 - 08:47 UTC

  Partners want to sever all Cartes partnerships

  

  Chilean business associates of disgraced former Paraguayan President Horacio Cartés would be pushing to break up all commercial ties with the man declared as “significantly corrupt” by the US State Department last month.

• Saturday, August 13th 2022 - 10:06 UTC

  Paraguayan VP to resign after joining US list of those “significantly corrupt”

  

  Paraguayan Vice President Hugo Velázquez Friday announced in a radio interview that he would be resigning his job and stepping down from the presidential race after being added by the United States to the list of people “significantly corrupt,” where he joined former President Horacio Cartés.

• Monday, August 1st 2022 - 08:23 UTC

  Paraguayan President pledges to up intelligence funding

  

  Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez last week announced he would up funding for the National Intelligence Secretariat (SNI), an agency created in 2018. Abdo justified his move on the body's precarious budget, due to which it relies on foreign cooperation to fulfill its mission.