In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Cartes and the second or maternal family name is Jara.
Horacio Cartes
Cartes in 2023
President of the Colorado Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 January 2023
Leader
Mario Abdo Benítez (Jan–Aug 2023) Santiago Peña (Aug 2023–present)
Preceded by
Pedro Alliana
50th President of Paraguay
In office 15 August 2013 – 15 August 2018
Vice President
Juan Afara (Aug 2013–Apr 2018) None (Apr–May 2018) Alicia Pucheta (May–Aug 2018)
Preceded by
Federico Franco
Succeeded by
Mario Abdo Benítez
Personal details
Born
Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara
(1956-07-05) 5 July 1956 (age 67) Asunción, Paraguay
Political party
Colorado (since 2009)
Spouse
María Montaña (divorced)
Children
3
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Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara (Spanish pronunciation:[oˈɾasjomaˈnwelˈkaɾtesˈxaɾa]; born 5 July 1956)[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]
^(in Portuguese) 18 April 2013, terra.com.br, Horacio Cartes, o multimilionário candidato à presidência do Paraguai
^"Con 45,8% de participación colorada, Cartes ganó presidencia de ANR". La Nación (Paraguay) (in Spanish). 19 December 2022.
^Millionaire businessman wins Paraguay presidency, France 24, 22 April 2013, archived from the original on 6 May 2013
^ ab"Horacio Cartes: Millionaire. Criminal. Business titan. Homophobe. The next president of Paraguay?". The Independent. 19 April 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
^"Cartes seguirá muy cerca". Archived from the original on 17 May 2014. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
^"Jonathan Santana se nacionalizó paraguayo". adnmundo.com. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
^Blinken, Antony. "Designation of Former Paraguayan President Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara for Involvement in Significant Corruption". United States Department of State. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
^"US places former Paraguayan president on corruption list". Associated Press. 22 July 2022. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara (Spanish pronunciation: [oˈɾasjo maˈnwel ˈkaɾtes ˈxaɾa]; born 5 July 1956) is a Paraguayan politician and businessman who is...
businessman HoracioCartes became the new political figure amid disputes. Despite the US Drug Enforcement Administration's strong accusations against Cartes related...
Grupo Cartes was a business conglomerate owned by Paraguay's ex-president HoracioCartes. It includes the cigarette company Tabacalera del Este (Tabesa)...
response to a constitutional amendment that would permit President HoracioCartes to run for re-election, a move described by the opposition as "a coup"...
Executive HoracioCartes as President", Bloomberg Businessweek, archived from the original on June 28, 2013 Cristina Fernandez and Mujica tell Cartes, Mercosur...
Nicaraguan police Gebran Bassil, President of the Free Patriotic Movement HoracioCartes, former president of Paraguay Hugo Velázquez, sitting vice president...
general election. Pucheta was nominated by the President of Paraguay HoracioCartes to replace Afara as Vice President of Paraguay later that month. At...
footballer Horacio Carochi (1586–1666), Italian Jesuit priest and grammarian HoracioCartes (born 1956), Paraguayan politician and businessman Horacio Casarín...
Ambassador to Argentina from 2013 to 2016, under the presidency of HoracioCartes. He was later appointed director of the Yacyretá Dam. Like all former...
193 people dead and more than 11,000 injured. April 21 – Businessman HoracioCartes wins the 2013 Paraguayan general election against Efraín Alegre. April...
General elections were held in Paraguay on 22 April 2018. President HoracioCartes and Vice-President Juan Afara of the Colorado Party were not eligible...
Spanish) "The men of Cartes". Vanguardia.com.py. 27 June 2013. Archived from the original on 27 August 2013. (in Spanish) "Cartes' new ministers sworn...
cigarette manufacturer. It was bought by HoracioCartes and was part of the president's business empire (Grupo Cartes) until it was reorganised in 2023. According...
that he was "cured" of the disease. "Con 45,8% de participación colorada, Cartes ganó presidencia de ANR". La Nación (Paraguay) (in Spanish). 19 December...
as senator since 2004. A member of the Colorado Party aligned with HoracioCartes, he has served as president of the Senate since 2023, office he previously...
Mercosur to lift the sanction. After the election and inauguration of HoracioCartes, Paraguay has so far claimed "Paraguay would not abandon Mercosur",...
January 2013. "Diario HOY | Franco deja "agujero" de US$ 1.000 millones a HoracioCartes". "Domingo Laíno presentará denuncia penal contra Federico Franco y...
Paraguayan bank established in 1992. It was part of president HoracioCartes' Grupo Cartes business conglomerate until its reorganisation in 2023. It is...
2008–2012 Federico Franco, President of the Republic of Paraguay, 2012–2013 HoracioCartes, President of the Republic of Paraguay, 2013–2018 Mario Abdo Benítez...
Franco (b. 1962) 22 June 2012 – 15 August 2013 Liberal – Oscar Denis 50 HoracioCartes (b. 1956) 15 August 2013 – 15 August 2018 Colorado 2013 Juan Afara Alicia...
Emilia Alfaro de Franco assumed the post; however, Franco's successor, HoracioCartes, one day after assuming the presidency, ended the title of First Lady...
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