Hugo Adalberto Velázquez Moreno (born 3 July 1967) is a

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politician. He is a former Deputy of the

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, and he served the President of the Chamber of Deputies from 2014 to 2017. Velázquez was elected

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in the

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. In June 2022, he registered his candidacy for president in the

2023 Paraguayan general election General elections were held in Paraguay on 30 April 2023 to elect the president, vice president, National Congress, and departmental governors. The incumbent president Mario Abdo Benítez and vice president Hugo Velázquez Moreno, both of the ...

. However, on 12 August 2022, Velázquez was designated as "significantly corrupt" by the

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, who accuses him of offering a US$1 million bribe to obstruct an investigation involving him, along with an associate, Juan Carlos Duarte, legal counsel for the Yacyreta Dam, and both men had their visa revoked. As a result, Velázquez announced he was dropping his presidential candidacy, effective immediately, and his resignation as Vice President, effective the following week. However, the following week, Velázquez stated that he would not resign from the vice presidency, stating that there were no investigations for corruption against him in Paraguay.

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Official deputy website
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