Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara

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POLITICS

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SPANISH

Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara [1] is a Paraguayan politician and businessman who is serving as president of the Colorado Party since 2023, having previously served as president of Paraguay from 2013 to 2018.[2][3] Cartes owned about two dozen businesses in his Grupo Cartes conglomerate until he left the conglomerate in 2023, including tobacco, soft drinks, meat production,[4] and banking. He was president of Club Libertad football club from 2001 until 2012,[5] and president of the national team inside the Paraguayan Football Association during the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification.[4][6] Between 2022 and 2023, he was classified as "significantly corrupt" and as a result subsequently subjected to economic sanctions by the United States, which accuses him of involvement in transnational crime and terrorist organizations.[7][8]

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