Jorge Lara Castro (born 5 August 1945 in

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) is a Paraguayan

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, sociologist, and

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. He served as the

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Minister of

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in the cabinet of

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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