Camilo Soares Machado has served as the

Paraguayan Paraguayans () are the citizens of Paraguay. Though the majority of Paraguayans reside in Paraguay, significant communities have been established in multiple countries, most noticeably Argentina, Spain, United States, Brazil. History The first ...

Minister of Emergency Preparedness under President

Fernando Lugo Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez (; born 30 May 1951) is a Paraguayan politician and Loss of clerical state, laicized Bishops in the Catholic Church, Catholic bishop who was President of Paraguay from 2008 to 2012. Previously, he was a Roman Cath ...

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Biography

At age 15, he founded the charity Casa de la Juventud (Youth House). In May 2006, he founded a

socialist Socialism is an economic ideology, economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse Economic system, economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. It describes ...

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called Partido del Movimiento al Socialismo, and in November 2006 he became a councillor for Asuncion. In 2008, he was appointed as Minister of Emergency Preparedness until May 28, 2010, when President Lugo issued decree 4418 to grant him unpaid leave, because he was being accused of embezzlement and counterfeit of invoices, causing damage for 4,290 million of guaraní. The case is still open and pending.

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