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	Nicanor Duarte Frutos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Óscar Nicanor Duarte Frutos (born October 11, 1956) is the current President of Paraguay.
		Born in Coronel Oviedo, Caaguazú, Duarte grew up during the Alfredo Stroessner dictatorship and was affiliated to Stroessner's Colorado Party at the age of 14 while attending high school in Coronel Oviedo.
		Duarte is married to María Gloria Penayo Solaeche and they have six children.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicanor_Duarte_Frutos (302 words)

	FAO Ambassadors Programme
		María Gloria Penayo de Duarte was born on 10 November 1962 in the town of Coronel Oviedo, the capital of the Department of Caaguazú, where she met Nicanor Duarte Frutos whom she married on 10 March 1984.
		At the same time, with a task force and help from various sectors of society, she is pursuing a number of programmes of support to education, health, cultural awareness and other activities to provide assistance and substance to the population.
		In her work, Maria Gloria Penayo de Duarte has always paid special attention to development of the woman, in her role as provider of life, conveyor of values and focal point for change in the family and society.
	www.fao.org /wfd/ambas/extraordinary/penayo_duarte_en.htm (590 words)

	Nicanor Duarte Frutos, nuevo presidente de paraguay
		Duarte Frutos, nacido el 11 de octubre de 1956, en la localidad de Coronel Oviedo, departamento de Caaguazú, es casado con María Gloria Penayo Solaeche con quien tienen cinco hijos.
		Cuando Duarte Frutos nació, su tierra natal era comandada por Alfredo Stroessner quien aún se mantenía en el poder cuando el ahora nuevo presidente, a los 14 años, decidió afiliarse al partido en el que militaban sus mayores, cuando aún cursaba la escuela media.
		Durante su exitosa campaña proselitista, Duarte Frutos ofreció y solicitó unidad al pueblo paraguayo por encima de fracciones y siglas pero enfatizó en que gobernaría "con mano dura" para confrontar enérgicamente con los gravísimos problemas que registra ese país.
	www.spanish.xinhuanet.com /htm/08140912481.htm (695 words)

	Print news - IPS Inter Press Service
		While recent polls suggest that the citizenry seems ready to give the new government some time to adjust, the Homeless Movement and peasant organisations are warming their engines to mobilise and lay out their demands for decent housing and for a better standard of living in rural areas.
		Furthermore, some two dozen civil society organisations and leftist groups set out early Thursday for the capital, where they plan to stage a demonstration Friday against what they say is ”the criminalisation of social struggles,” in other words they say crackdowns on protests are violating their freedom of expression.
		Duarte Frutos, 46, an attorney by training, won April's general elections.
	www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=19676 (1185 words)

	Scoop: Paraguay’s Leader Risks His Presidency
		Paraguayan President Nicanor Duarte Frutos is performing a dangerously delicate balancing act which has been described by some as exercising a populist style of leadership.
		Duarte, who hails from humble origins, must have in mind the bitter fate of Bolivia’s Sanchez de Lozada, who was pressured out of office after turning to his troops in his dealings with the indigenous leadership.
		Duarte claims to represent the common man, (having won 37.1 percent of Paraguay’s popular vote in the 2003 presidential elections, much of it probably coming from the more than one-third of the country living below the poverty line).
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0411/S00267.htm (1229 words)

	MOFA: Visit to Japan of His Excellency Mr. Nicanor Duarte Frutos, President of the Republic of Paraguay and Mrs. Duarte ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nicanor Duarte Frutos, President of the Republic of Paraguay and Mrs.
		Duarte, accompanied by a suite, will pay a visit to Japan from October 29 to November 2, 2005 and stay as the Guest from October 30 to November 2, 2005.
		Duarte will make a State Call on Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of Japan, and Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress will host a Court Luncheon in honor of the President and Mrs.
	www.mofa.go.jp.cob-web.org:8888 /announce/event/2005/9/0930.html (204 words)

	Pobreza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During a visit to OAS headquarters in late September, Paraguayan President Nicanor Duarte Frutos said his government was making an all-out effort to combat corruption, reduce poverty and bring about greater social equity.
		Duarte Frutos also stressed the need to combat poverty and social inequality in the region, warning that a failure to do so could lead to a rise in demagogic nationalism and militarism.
		President Duarte Frutos praised the OAS and Secretary General César Gaviria for supporting Paraguay at critical moments in its history, saying these efforts had helped bolster democracy in his country.
	www.oas.org /oasnews/2003/Nov-Dec/English/art8.html (231 words)

	BBC Mundo \| AMÉRICA LATINA \| Nicanor Duarte Frutos: la "marea colorada"
		Nicanor Duarte Frutos, quien se afilió a los 14 años de edad, asumió como presidente de su partido en un momento muy crítico: acababan de asesinar al antiguo mentor del candidato, el vicepresidente Luis María Argaña.
		Duarte Frutos tiene el enorme mérito de haber forzado la salida de Lino Oviedo del Partido Colorado.
		A Duarte Frutos se lo considera como un hombre poco influenciable pero con el interesante antecedente de haberse sabido rodear de gente capacitada al frente del Ministerio de Educación.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/spanish/latin_america/newsid_2959000/2959813.stm (885 words)

	MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
		Paraguayan president Nicanor Duarte Frutos sacked Interior Minister, Nelson Mora, and at least 55 Police officers, the greatest security forces purge ever, in the framework of the investigation on the abduction and killing of a former president’s daughter.
		Benitez is a close political associate of President Duarte Flores and mayor of the city of Encarnación where apparently he has been quite successful in combating organized crime.
		Duarte Frutos took office over a hundred security forces officers have been removed in an attempt to restore public opinion creditability and transparency.
	www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=5166 (1412 words)

	MWC - Mennonite Church Grounds Paraguay's First Family
		STRASBOURG, France — Maria Gloria Penayo de Duarte Frutos, First Lady of Paraguay, and her five children are a vital part of Iglesia Raíces Hermanos Menonitas (Rooths Mennonite Brethren Church) in Paraguay.
		The president, Nicanor Duarte Frutos, attends whenever duties of state allow him to do so.
		Nicanor Duarte Frutos was installed as president on August 15, 2003.
	www.mwc-cmm.org /News/MWC/031217rls2.html (388 words)

	Inter American Press Association
		President Nicanor Duarte Frutos urged journalists to practice self-criticism and suggested that some businessmen buy media outlets to cover up illegal acts and disguise the true conditions of society.
		On October 17, criminal judge Dionisio Nicolás Frutos ordered Aldo Zuccolillo, editor of the daily ABC Color, to pay a fine equivalent to $15,500 to the government plus a $12,500 personal award to the plaintiff in a defamation case brought by Juan Ernesto Villamayor, a member of the governing Colorado Party.
		On November 24, President Nicanor Duarte Frutos insinuated that some businessmen buy media outlets solely to “commit flmail and extortion” and “whitewash social reality.” He spoke during a series of interviews he granted to the media on the occasion of the first 100 days of his administration.
	www.sipiapa.org /pulications/report_paraguay2004m.cfm (1204 words)

	Nicanor Duarte Frutos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In a press conference reported in the daily Ãltima Hora, Paraguayan President Nicanor Duarte Frutos explained why his country would abstain rather than vote...
		Nicanor Duarte Frutos (born October 11, 1956) is the President of Paraguay.
		He is from the dominant Colorado Party and won the presidential election of April 2003.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/n/ni/nicanor_duarte_frutos.html (119 words)

	Send to a Friend - IPS Inter Press Service
		Duarte Frutos will immediately have to sort out a reduction of the fiscal deficit, reforms of the state apparatus and the social security system, the battle against corruption and implementation of a monetary policy that would reactivate production, say experts consulted by IPS.
		Asunción municipal government employees began a strike Thursday in protest against the layoffs of 850 of their co-workers, an ”adjustment” that Duarte Frutos himself supported.
		Isabelino Duarte, 53, says, ”Nothing could be worse than the González Macchi administration.
	www.ipsnews.net /sendnews.asp?idnews=19676 (1213 words)

	Scoop: Ill-fated Paraguay President-elect Takes Office
		Duarte Frutos has also won popular approval for his frequently expressed distaste for privatization and “Washington Consensus” structural adjustment policies, which are axiomatically imposed upon economically struggling poor countries as a prerequisite for receiving loans from the World Bank and the IMF.
		But although Duarte Frutos mounted such sentiments during his campaign, his zeal for big reform initiatives in a corruption-ridden country whose economy is based largely on an illegal commodity import/export market has raised doubts about the feasibility that conditions will rapidly change.
		Skeptics feel that Duarte Frutos may be performing the same song and dance as did the leaders before him and that soon his broad-ranging commitments will get the cane.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0308/S00192.htm (799 words)

	Paraguay - Amnesty International
		There were continued reports of torture and illtreatment of criminal suspects and army conscripts and of excessive use of force by the security forces during demonstrations.
		The government of President Nicanor Duarte Frutos took office in August.
		In April, former Vice-President Angel Roberto Seifart and 18 others were cleared of involvement in the killing of at least seven students during anti-government demonstrations in March 1999; eight other people, including two senators, were sentenced to prison terms ranging from six months to five years.
	web.amnesty.org /report2004/Pry-summary-eng (836 words)

	Euro2day :: Paraguay threatens to walk out of Mercosur
		Without meaningful reform, President Nicanor Duarte Frutos told the Financial Times, Paraguay could "apply the principle of euthanasia [to Mercosur], and let it go, faced with the impossibility of revitalising and mending it".
		Mr Duarte attacked Brazil and Argentina, the dominant pair in Mercosur, of "selfishness and even hypocrisy".
		But in spite of Mr Duarte's criticisms of Mercosur, Paraguayans accept that for geographical reasons the country's destiny is bound to Mercosur.
	www.euro2day.gr /articlesfna/17030463 (1106 words)

	Nicanor Duarte Frutos Paraguay April 2003 Colorado Party President of Paraguay President October 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		?car Nicanor Duarte Frutos (born October 11, 1956) is the President of Paraguay.
		NICANOR DUARTE FRUTOS, Presidente de la República, en ocasión de la cena ofrecida en honor de Su Majestad Don Juan Carlos de...
		Paraguayan President Nicanor Duarte Frutos has a clear anti-corruption agenda to which he appears to be adhering.
	en.powerwissen.com /DktkZxCeSSr5MDQvGXCwPg==_Nicanor_Duarte_Frutos.html (165 words)

	Paraguayan president names four Mennonites to senior posts
		In May 2003, Nicanor Duarte Frutos, whose wife is Mennonite, was elected president and appointed four Mennonites to senior government posts.
		The Duarte Frutos family attends Raices (Roots) Mennonite Brethren Church in Asuncion, a church plant that sought to reach the city’s Spanish middle-class community.
		The first lady, Maria Gloria Penayo de Duarte Frutos, is a former Roman Catholic who joined the MB church.
	www.mennoweekly.org /SEPTEMBER/09-13-04/PARAGUAY09-13.html (205 words)

	‘Nicanor Duarte Frutos’ winning chances for the 2003 elections are high’
		Now, the other factor countries like ours open to foreign influences should always have is the positioning of the international community generally prone to accept President’s González Macchi’s continuity in office until 2003.
		For another thing, the urgency within the Partido Colorado for the leadership of current President Nicanor Duarte Frutos, who seems likely to reach a relative success in the 2003 elections.
		Regarding what the international community said, the perception abroad is that if there was a solution within the institutional framework, the international community would not oppose.
	www.nuevamayoria.com /english/entrevistas/notas/imoringo010801.htm (933 words)

	americas.org - No Surprise in Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		on April 27, Colorado Party candidate Nicanor Duarte Frutos appeared to have won the presidency of Paraguay with some 38 percent of the vote.
		Duarte Frutos—whose Colorado Party has ruled Paraguay since 1947—was expected to win easily.
		There are no second rounds in Paraguay; the candidate with the highest vote automatically wins.
	www.americas.org /item_8341 (167 words)

	Nicanor Duarte Frutos - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Nicanor Duarte Frutos - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Nicanor Duarte Frutos, leader of the Colorado Party, was elected president of Paraguay in 2003.
		He pledged to clean up corruption and improve the economy.
	encarta.msn.com /media_1121538569/Nicanor_Duarte_Frutos.html (33 words)

	Entretien entre M. Jacques Chirac et M. Nicanor Duarte Frutos (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Le Président de la République a accueilli le Président Frutos en soulignant que la France est très attachée à ses relations amicales avec le Paraguay et qu’il garde un souvenir très vif de sa visite à Assomption en 1997.
		Le Président de la République a exprimé l’espoir que le Président Frutos puisse apporter son soutien au Congrès des professeurs de français des Amériques, qui se tiendra à Assomption du 2 au 7 juillet, et sera l’occasion de marquer l’importance de la diversité culturelle et linguistique sur le continent américain.
		Le Président de la République a remercié le Président Frutos pour le soutien du Paraguay à l’initiative sur les sources innovantes de financement du développement et a exprimé l’espoir que le Paraguay et la France puissent continuer à travailler ensemble à sa réalisation concrète.
	www.ambafran.gov.py.cob-web.org:8888 /article.php3?id_article=424 (402 words)

	Press Releases
		Nicanor Duarte Frutos, speaking at the Organization of American States (OAS) today, cited the campaign against corruption in his country as central to the war on poverty and social inequity.
		President Duarte Frutos said, “Poverty will end when democracy emerges in our countries.” He warned that “unless we can tackle social inequity, poverty and corruption in our regions, demagogic nationalism could return and our region could see a strange kind of militarism reappear.”
		Nicanor Duarte Frutos, Luis Enrique Chase Plate, Permanent Representative of Paraguay, and Luigi Einaudi, Assistant Secretary General
	www.oas.org /OASpage/press_releases/press_release.asp?sCodigo=E-183/03 (457 words)

	.:: PRESIDENCIA DE LA REPÚBLICA DEL PARAGUAY ::.
		DUARTE FRUTOS: PRESUPUESTO 2007 PARA LAS FFAA ES RELATIVO FRENTE A OTROS MINISTERIOS
		Integrantes de la Mesa Coordinadora de Organizaciones Campesinas del Departamento de Misiones recurrieron al presidente de la República, Nicanor Duarte Frutos, para buscar la solución a un problema de ocupación de tierra en la compañía Ka'atygue, distrito de Santa Rosa.
		Integrantes de la Cámara de Diputados mantendrán mañana jueves una reunión de trabajo con el presidente de la República, Nicanor Duarte Frutos, para analizar el Presupuesto General de la Nación que regirá el próximo año fiscal para las instituciones de la Administración Central y las Entidades Descentralizadas, respectivamente.
	www.presidencia.gov.py (284 words)

	Japan Today - News - Prince Akishino meets Paraguay President Duarte
		Prince Akishino, the younger son of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, met with Paraguay President Oscar Nicanor Duarte Frutos at the presidential office in Asuncion on Wednesday after arriving for a four-day visit marking the 70th anniversary of Japanese immigration to the country.
		Duarte expressed thanks for Japan's assistance in agricultural development, while the Japanese prince responded by saying he is happy to know that Japan's aid contributed to the development of Paraguay, Japanese officials said.
		The prince also conveyed a message from his father hoping for further development of friendship between Japan and Paraguay, the officials said.
	www.japantoday.com /jp/news/389210 (370 words)

	The World Factbook: Paraguay - World Sites Atlas
		head of government: President Nicanor DUARTE Frutos (since 15 August 2003); Vice President Luis CASTIGLIONI Joria (since 15 August 2003); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government
		Supreme Court of Justice or Corte Suprema de Justicia (judges appointed on the proposal of the Council of Magistrates or Consejo de la Magistratura)
		note: Nicanor DUARTE Frutos on leave as party leader of the Colorado Party or ANR while serving as President of Paraguay; Lino Cesar OVIEDO Silva, leader of UNACE, is currently serving a ten-year prison term
	www.sitesatlas.com /Maps/Factbook/Gov/pa.html (534 words)

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