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v. t. e. General elections were held in Paraguay on 30 April 2023 to elect the president, vice president, National Congress, and departmental governors. [ 1] The incumbent president Mario Abdo Benítez and vice president Hugo Velázquez Moreno, both of the Colorado Party, were ineligible for re-election. The Colorado candidate, former Finance ...
In May 2023, Santiago Peña of the long-ruling Colorado Party, won the presidential election to succeed Mario Abdo as the next President of Paraguay. [2] On 15 August 2023, Santiago Peña was sworn in as Paraguay's new president. [3] The workplace of the President of Paraguay is the Palacio de los López, in Asunción.
Ruben Gallego. Rubén Marinelarena Gallego ( / ˈruːbən ɡaɪˈɛɡoʊ / ROO-bən gy-EH-goh; born November 20, 1979) is an American politician and former U.S. Marine serving as the U.S. representative for Arizona's 3rd congressional district. Gallego served and deployed as a USMCR Corporal in the US invasion of Iraq.
José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco ( Spanish pronunciation: [xoˈse ɣasˈpaɾ roˈðɾiɣes ðe ˈfɾansia]) (6 January 1766 – 20 September 1840) was a Paraguayan lawyer and politician, and the first dictator (1814–1840) of Paraguay [1] following its 1811 independence from the Spanish Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.
Paraguay ( / ˈpærəɡwaɪ /; Spanish pronunciation: [paɾaˈɣwaj] ⓘ ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( Spanish: República del Paraguay; Guarani: Paraguái Tavakuairetã ), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest.
Evaristo Martelo y Paumán del Nero Nuñez y Zuazo-Mondragón,[ 2] 6th Marquess of Almeiras (1850–1928), was a Spanish aristocrat, writer and politician. He is known chiefly as a poet who contributed to emergence of the literary Galician and who is counted among protagonists of the so-called Rexurdimento.
v. t. e. The Marzo paraguayo ("Paraguayan March") was a political crisis that occurred in Paraguay because of the assassination of the then- Vice President Luis María Argaña on 23 March 1999. [1] [2] [3] The opposition blamed the then- President, Raúl Cubas Grau, and also the strongman of Paraguayan politics of that time, Lino Oviedo, for ...
Fernando Lugo, elected President of Paraguay in 2008, was impeached and removed from office by the Congress of Paraguay in June 2012. On 21 June the Chamber of Deputies voted 76 to 1 to impeach Lugo, and the Senate removed him from office the following day, by 39 votes to 4, resulting in Vice President Federico Franco, who had broken with Lugo ...