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词条 Horacio Cartes
释义

  1. Business career

  2. Early political career

  3. President of Paraguay

     Election  Cabinet  Foreign relations  Resignation attempt 

  4. Controversial statements

  5. References

  6. External links

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}}{{Spanish name|Cartes|Jara}}{{Infobox Officeholder
|name = Horacio Cartes
|image = Horacio Cartes con banda.jpg
|office = 50th President of Paraguay
|vicepresident = Juan Afara (Aug 2013–Apr 2018)
None (Apr–May 2018)
Alicia Pucheta (Apr–Aug 2018)
|term_start = 15 August 2013
|term_end = 15 August 2018
|predecessor = Federico Franco
|successor = Mario Abdo Benítez
|birth_name = Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1956|7|5|df=y}}
|birth_place = Asunción, Paraguay
|death_date =
|death_place =
|party = Colorado Party
|spouse = María Montaña {{small|(divorced)}}
|children = 3
|residence = Mburuvicha Róga
|signature = Presidente H. Cartes firma.jpg
}}Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara OSC (born 5 July 1956[1]) is a Paraguayan businessman and politician. He was the president of Paraguay from 2013 to 2018. He is a member of the Colorado Party.[2]

Cartes owns about two dozen businesses in his Grupo Cartes conglomerate including tobacco, soft drinks, meat production,[3] and banking. He was president of Club Libertad football club from 2001 until 2012,[3] and had been the president of the national team department of the Paraguayan Football Association during the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification.[4][5]

Business career

Cartes' father was the owner of a Cessna aircraft franchise holding company and the young Horacio studied aviation mechanics in the United States. At the age of 19, he started a currency exchange business which grew into the Banco Amambay. Over the following years, Cartes bought or helped establish 25 companies including Tabesa, the country's biggest cigarette manufacturer, and a major fruit juice bottling company.[6]

In 1986, Cartes spent 60 days in jail during a currency fraud investigation. He was accused of making millions of dollars on a central bank loan obtained at a preferential exchange rate and then moving it through his money exchange business before buying farm equipment in the U.S. The case was eventually dropped.[7]

Cartes was imprisoned on charges of currency fraud for seven months in 1989. He was eventually cleared by a court.[9]

In 2000, the anti-drug police seized a plane carrying cocaine and marijuana on his ranch. He claimed that the plane had made an emergency landing, that he had no involvement with the drug trade and that he opposed the legalization of narcotics.[8]

Cartes' name appears in the Offshore leaks files in connection with a Cook Islands financial entity linked to Cartes' Paraguayan bank Banco Amambay.[9][10][11] A classified WikiLeaks cable from 2010 mentioned Cartes as the focus of a money laundering investigation by the DEA.[12][13]

Early political career

Until 2008 Cartes was uninvolved in politics and he was not registered as a voter.[14] He joined the center-right Colorado Party in 2009 and said he wanted to counter the swing to the left in Latin American politics. He became known as an efficient politician uncompromised by his party's past support of the military dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner who ruled until 1989.[14]

In regards to allegation of his connections to the drug trade, as well as being targeted by the DEA,[18] he said during his presidential campaign: "I wouldn't want to be president if I had ties to drug traffickers. Go to the courts and check. There's nothing, not a single charge against me."[18]

President of Paraguay

Election

Cartes was the Colorado candidate in the 2013 presidential election.[6][14] The BBC suggested that his convincing points during his campaign were the promises to raise private capital to upgrade the country's infrastructure, to modernise its public enterprises, to attract international investments, and to create jobs. On 21 April 2013, he was elected President of Paraguay with 45.80% of the vote.[6] When he took office on 15 August, it marked only the second time in the country's 202 years of independence that a ruling party peacefully surrendered power to the opposition.

In regards to the impeachment of Fernando Lugo and the negative reception the country was given in the aftermath by Latin American leaders, Cartes defended the legality of the impeachment and said that Paraguay should not withdraw from Mercosur, pointing to economic benefits of the common market and free trade.[15]

He was sworn in on August 15, 2013, using his inaugural address to declare a war on poverty in Paraguay.[16] His inauguration was attended by fellow conservative South American, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera, as well as Argentina's Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Peru's Ollanta Humala,[17] Brazil's Dilma Rousseff, Uruguay's José Mujica and Taiwan's Ma Ying-jeou.[26]

Cabinet

Cartes announced his cabinet in August 2013 upon being sworn in.[18] Cartes' picks were largely technocratic.[19]

Portfolio Minister Term
Vice President Juan Afara [17]
Minister of Finance Germán Rojas August 2013 - January 2015 [19][20]
Santiago Peña January 2015 - June 2017
Lea Giménez June 2017 - August 2018
Minister of Foreign Relations Eladio Loizaga [21]
Minister of National Defense Gen. Bernardino Soto Estigarribia August 2013 - November 2015 [20]
Diógenes Martínez November 2015 -
Minister of the Interior Francisco de Vargas August 2013 - November 2016 [19][20]
Tadeo Rojas November 2016 - April 2017 [22]
Lorenzo Darío Lezcano April 2017 - [23] mainly as a consequence of the violent repression of protesters by the police on 31 March 2017.[24]
Minister of Industry and Commerce Gustavo Leite [20]
Minister of Agriculture and Livestock Jorge Gattini [20]
Minister of Public Works and Communications Ramón Jiménez Gaona [20] a former Olympic athlete[25]
Minister of Health and Social Welfare Dr. Antonio Barrios Cartes' personal physician[20]
Minister of Education and Science Marta Lafuente August 2013 - May 2016 [20] Lafuente resigned in May 2016,[26]
Enrique Riera Escudero May 2016 - [27]
Minister of Justice Sheila Abed August 2013 - January 2016 [20]
Carla Bacigalupo January 2016 - July 2016 [28][29]
Ever Martínez July 2016 - [30][31]
Minister of Labor, Employment, and Social Security Guillermo Sosa [32]
Minister of Women Ana María Baiardi [20]
Sports Secretary Víctor Pecci [33][25]

Foreign relations

On May 21, 2018, the Paraguayan embassy moved to Jerusalem, becoming the third country in the world to recognize the city as the diplomatic capital of Israel.[34] However, Cartes's successor Mario Abdo Benítez reversed the decision on September 5, 2018.[35]

Resignation attempt

On 22 April 2018, Cartes was elected to a full Senate seat, which he ran for in hopes of extending his political influence past his presidency.[36] New Senators would be sworn in on 30 June 2018, six weeks before Cartes's presidential term was scheduled to end, thus the need for Cartes to leave office before the expiration of his term, as the constitution states officials can not hold two offices concurrently. Consequently, on 28 May 2018, Cartes offered his resignation as President, which would have to be agreed to by Congress. Legislators were opposed to Cartes resigning and taking up the seat, stating it was unconstitutional. The opposition, as well as dissidents within Cartes' own Colorado Party, successfully blocked Cartes's resignation,[36] boycotting the vote, hence preventing a quorum from being present for a vote on the resignation.[37] Cartes withdrew his bid to resign and be sworn in as a senator on 26 June 2018 after not receiving enough political support to carry through his plans.[38]

Controversial statements

Leading to the 2013 presidential election, Cartes made controversial statements on the LGBT community, comparing it to "monkeys". He also said he would "shoot myself in the bollocks" if he were to discover a son who wanted to marry another man.[4]

On 10 August 2018, when asked by a journalist about his response to a series of citizen protests on Yacyretá Dam deals and congressmen with pending criminal cases, Cartes responded "Rubber bullets".[39][40] Cartes later apologized for the remark, stating, "I want to express my apologies to the young people for the published expressions. I always encouraged them to express themselves and my goal is the peace of all Paraguayans".[41][42]

References

1. ^{{pt icon}} 18 April 2013, terra.com.br, Horacio Cartes, o multimilionário candidato à presidência do Paraguai
2. ^{{Citation|url=http://www.france24.com/en/20130422-millionaire-businessman-wins-paraguay-presidency |archive-url=https://archive.is/20130506093345/http://www.france24.com/en/20130422-millionaire-businessman-wins-paraguay-presidency |dead-url=yes |archive-date=6 May 2013 |title=Millionaire businessman wins Paraguay presidency |publisher=France 24 |date=22 April 2013 }}
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.d10.com.py:805/futbol/primera-division/club/libertad/26374-cartes-seguira-muy-cerca |title=Archived copy |accessdate=16 May 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517122849/http://www.d10.com.py:805/futbol/primera-division/club/libertad/26374-cartes-seguira-muy-cerca |archivedate=17 May 2014 |df= }}
4. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/horacio-cartes-millionaire-criminal-business-titan-homophobe-the-next-president-of-paraguay-8580851.html|title=Horacio Cartes: Millionaire. Criminal. Business titan. Homophobe. The next president of Paraguay?|newspaper=The Independent|date=19 April 2013|accessdate=19 April 2013}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.adnmundo.com/contenidos/deportes/jonathan_santana_nacionalizado_paraguayo_paraguay_futbol_copa_am.html|title=Jonathan Santana se nacionalizó paraguayo|work=adnmundo.com|accessdate=1 June 2015}}
6. ^1 2 {{Citation |title=Profile: Horacio Cartes |publisher=BBC News |date=22 April 2013 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22247484}}
7. ^{{cite news | first = Pedro | last = Servin |author2=Michael Warren | title = Paraguay's new president woos foreign investment | date = 15 August 2013 | url = http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Paraguay-s-new-president-was-targeted-by-the-DEA-4734005.php | work = Houston Chronicle | accessdate = 17 August 2013}}
8. ^1 {{Citation |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/22/world/americas/horacio-cartes-wins-paraguays-presidential-election.html?_r=0 |title=Conservative Tobacco Magnate Wins Presidential Race in Paraguay |first=Simon |last=Romero |newspaper=The New York Times |date=21 April 2013}}
9. ^Reporters without Borders, 18 April 2013, CAMPAIGN MARKED BY CENSORSHIP, POST-ELECTION REPRISALS FEARED
10. ^{{es icon}} Diario ABC Color, 16 April 2013, Banco para “alternativas no disponibles en Paraguay”
11. ^ICIJ, 15 April 2013, Bank Owned by Paraguay’s Leading Presidential Candidate Linked to Tax Haven
12. ^Buenos Aires Herald, 22 April 2013, Horacio Cartes wins comfortably in Paraguay
13. ^{{es icon}} 14 November 2011, Última Hora, WikiLeaks: Cartes desmiente lavado de dinero en el Banco Amambay
14. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://brecha.com.uy/index.php/mundo/1728-el-buen-olfato-de-horacio-cartes |archive-url=https://archive.is/20130505175930/http://brecha.com.uy/index.php/mundo/1728-el-buen-olfato-de-horacio-cartes |archive-date=5 May 2013 |title=Cartes' "good nose" for winning an election |date=26 April 2013 |publisher=Brecha |language=es |deadurl=yes |df= }}
15. ^{{cite web|url=http://en.mercopress.com/2012/07/13/paraguayan-presidential-hopeful-said-the-country-should-in-no-way-abandon-mercosur |title=Paraguayan presidential hopeful said the country should in no way abandon Mercosur — MercoPress |publisher=En.mercopress.com |accessdate=2 September 2013}}
16. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paraguays-new-president-horacio-cartes-was-investigated-by-dea-for-alleged-money-laundering/|title=Paraguay's new president Horacio Cartes was investigated by DEA for alleged money laundering|date=August 15, 2013|publisher=CBS News}}
17. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.ilovechile.cl/2013/08/16/chilean-president-piera-visits-paraguay-inauguration-president-horacio-cartes/89881 |title=Piñera visits Paraguay: Inauguration of President |publisher=Ilovechile.cl |date=16 August 2013 |accessdate=2 September 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130822125938/http://www.ilovechile.cl/2013/08/16/chilean-president-piera-visits-paraguay-inauguration-president-horacio-cartes/89881 |archivedate=22 August 2013 |df= }}
18. ^1 {{cite web|author= |url=http://www.argentinaindependent.com/currentaffairs/newsfromlatinamerica/paraguay-president-elect-horacio-cartes-announces-cabinet/ |title=Paraguay: President-Elect Horacio Cartes Announces Cabinet|publisher=The Argentina Independent|date=13 August 2013 |accessdate=2 September 2013}}
19. ^1 2 {{cite web |url=http://www.americaeconomia.com/politica-sociedad/politica/horacio-cartes-apuesta-por-un-gabinete-de-tecnicos-en-paraguay |title= Technocrat cabinet in Paraguay |date=14 August 2013 |publisher=América Economía|language=es}}
20. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 {{cite web |url=http://www.informador.com.mx/internacional/2013/478855/6/cartes-jura-a-los-11-ministros-de-su-gabinete.htm |title=Cartes' new ministers sworn in |accessdate=20 August 2013 |publisher=Informador.com.mx|language=es}}
21. ^{{cite web|url=http://brecha.com.uy/index.php/mundo/2312-coming-back-en-paraguay |title=Coming back in Paraguay |date=16 August 2013|publisher=Brecha|language=es}}
22. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.presidencia.gov.py/articulo/23117-tadeo-rojas-juro-como-nuevo-ministro-del-interior-.html#.WPjOfIjys2w|title=Tadeo Rojas juró como nuevo ministro del Interior|last=|first=|date=3 November 2016|website=Presidencia de la República del Paraguay|language=Spanish|access-date=20 April 2017}}
23. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.presidencia.gov.py/articulo/24894-comunicado-oficial-presidente-cartes-dispuso-cambio-del-ministro-del-interior-y-del-comandante-de-la-policia-nacional.html#.WPjPxIgrI2x|title=Comunicado Oficial: Presidente Cartes dispuso cambio del ministro del Interior y del comandante de la Policía Nacional|last=|first=|date=1 April 2017|website=Presidencia de la República del Paraguay|language=Spanish|access-date=20 April 2017}}
24. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/04/01/protesters-set-fire-inside-paraguay-congress-building-after-senate-majority-approves-presidential-re-election.html|title=Paraguay’s president fires interior minister, police chief amid election protests|last=|first=|date=1 April 2017|website=Fox News|access-date=20 April 2017}}
25. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.golazotropical.com.py/tag/ramon-jimenez-gaona/ |title=Two former sportspeople in the Cabinet |date=15 August 2013|publisher=Golazotropical.com.py}}
26. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.presidencia.gov.py/articulo/20796-mandatario-acepto-renuncia-presentada-por-marta-lafuente.html#.WPjTtogrI2w|title=Mandatario aceptó renuncia presentada por Marta Lafuente|last=|first=|date=6 May 2016|website=Presidencia de la República del Paraguay|language=Spanish|access-date=20 April 2017}}
27. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.lanacion.com.py/2016/05/09/enrique-riera-nuevo-ministro-de-educacion/|title=Enrique Riera es el nuevo ministro de Educación|last=|first=|date=9 May 2016|website=Diario La Nación (Paraguay)|language=Spanish|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160510104151/http://www.lanacion.com.py/2016/05/09/enrique-riera-nuevo-ministro-de-educacion/|archive-date=10 May 2016|dead-url=yes|access-date=20 April 2017}}
28. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/politica/carla-bacigalupo-jurara-hoy-como-nueva-ministra-1442322.html|title=Carla Bacigalupo jurará hoy como nueva ministra|website=ABC Color|language=Spanish|date=7 January 2016|access-date=20 April 2017}}
29. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.abc.com.py/nacionales/destituyen-a-carla-bacigalupo-1502839.html|title=Destituyen a Carla Bacigalupo|website=ABC Color|language=Spanish|date=26 July 2016|access-date=20 April 2017}}
30. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.presidencia.gov.py/articulo/21778-comunicado-oficial.html#.WPjXbIgrI2x|title=Comunicado oficial|last=|first=|date=26 July 2016|website=Presidencia de la República del Paraguay|language=Spanish|access-date=20 April 2017}}
31. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.abc.com.py/nacionales/nombran-a-martinez-como-ministro-en-justicia-1517911.html|title=Éver Martínez es nuevo ministro de Justicia|last=|first=|date=12 September 2016|website=ABC Color|language=Spanish|access-date=20 April 2017}}
32. ^«Cartes nombra a Guillermo Sosa como ministro de Trabajo». Lanacion.com.py. 28 March 2014. (Retrieved 1 April 2017)
33. ^{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.conmebol.com/en/content/paraguay-victor-manuel-pecci-appointed-minister-sports |title=Paraguay: Víctor Manuel Pecci is appointed Minister of Sports |publisher=Conmebol |date=13 August 2013 |accessdate=3 February 2015}}
34. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.euronews.com/2018/05/21/paraguay-moves-embassy-to-jerusalem|title=Paraguay moves embassy to Jerusalem|last=|first=|date=2018-05-21|work=Euronews|access-date=2018-05-23|language=en}}
35. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/05/paraguay-jerusalem-embassy-moves-to-tel-aviv|title=Outcry from Israel after Paraguay moves its Jerusalem embassy back to Tel Aviv|last=|first=|date=2018-09-05|work=The Guardian|access-date=2018-09-06|language=en}}
36. ^1 {{cite news |last=Servin |first=Pedro |publisher=Associated Press|title=Paraguay president withdraws resignation and Senate bid |accessdate=June 26, 2018 |url=http://www.startribune.com/paraguay-president-withdraws-resignation-and-senate-bid/486587181/}}
37. ^{{cite news |agency=Associated Press|title=Setback for outgoing Paraguay president’s Senate aspirations|date=May 30, 2018|url=https://www.apnews.com/bd72c653d1b4433fb4c70e886cece926}}
38. ^{{cite news |publisher=Chron |title=Presidente paraguayo Horacio Cartes retira su renuncia |accessdate=June 26, 2018 |language=Spanish |url=https://www.chron.com/espanol/news/article/Presidente-paraguayo-Horacio-Cartes-retira-su-13027039.php}}
39. ^{{cite news |title=Cartes: "Balines de goma" |trans-title=Cartes: “Rubber bullets” |url=http://www.abc.com.py/nacionales/balines-de-goma-para-estudiantes-1729689.html |newspaper=ABC Color |language=Spanish |date=10 August 2018 |accessdate=15 August 2018}}
40. ^{{cite news |title=Cartes sobre manifestantes: "Balines de goma" |trans-title=Cartes on protesters: "Rubber bullets" |url=https://www.ultimahora.com/cartes-manifestantes-balines-goma-n2700843.html |newspaper=Última Hora |language=Spanish |date=10 August 2018 |accessdate=15 August 2018}}
41. ^{{cite news |title=¿Horacio Cartes no asume su exabrupto? |trans-title=Horacio Cartes does not assume his outburst? |url=http://www.abc.com.py/nacionales/al-final-cartes-pidio-disculpas-1729700.html |newspaper=ABC Color |language=Spanish |date=10 August 2018 |accessdate=15 August 2018}}
42. ^{{cite news |title=Cartes se disculpa por sugerir "balines de goma" contra secundarios |trans-title=Cartes apologizes for suggesting "rubber bullets" against high school students |url=https://www.ultimahora.com/cartes-se-disculpa-sugerir-balines-goma-contra-secundarios-n2700850.html |newspaper=Última Hora |language=Spanish |date=10 August 2018 |accessdate=15 August 2018}}

External links

{{Commons category|Horacio Cartes}}
  • Biography of Horacio Cartes by CIDOB (in Spanish)
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