Juan Carlos Wasmosy

Juan Carlos Wasmosy

Infobox_President | name= Juan Carlos Wasmosy


|order=48th President of Paraguay
term_start=August 15, 1993
term_end=August 15, 1998
predecessor=Andrés Rodríguez
successor=Raúl Cubas Grau
birth_date=Birth date and age|1938|12|15|mf=y
birth_place=Asuncion, Paraguay
dead=
death_date=
death_place=
spouse=
party=Colorado Party
vicepresident=Ángel Seifart

Juan Carlos Wasmosy Monti (born December 15, 1938) was the President of Paraguay from 1993 until 1998. He was a member of the Colorado Party, and the country's first civilian president in 39 years.

Born in Asunción, Paraguay, Wasmosy trained as a civil engineer and became head of the Paraguayan consortium working on the Itaipu Dam. During this project, he amassed a large amount of wealth. He served as minister of integration under President Andrés Rodríguez.

His ancestors (Dániel Vámosy and József Vámosy - who changed his name into Wamosy) immigrated to South America from Debrecen, Hungary in 1828. at that time, the surname of the family was Vámosy. His relative, Alceu Wamosy (1895-1923), a famous Brazilian writer, is also from this ancestry. Juan Carlos Wasmosy went to see the home town of his ancestors in 1995 during his official visit to Hungary.

Rodríguez endorsed Wasmosy as his successor in the 1993 elections. He won with approximately 40 percent of the vote in what is generally acknowledged to be the first honest election in the country's history (the country had gained independence in 1811), with Domingo Laino finishing a close second. Although there were confirmed cases of fraud, a team of international observers led by Jimmy Carter concluded that Wasmosy's margin of victory was large enough to offset any wrongdoing. Carter also noted that opposition candidates took 60 percent of the vote between them--a remarkable figure in a country where opposition had been barely tolerated for most of its history up to that point.

However, he became very unpopular when he appointed many of longtime dictator Alfredo Stroessner's supporters to government posts. He also failed to continue the limited reforms of Rodríguez.

Lino Oviedo, head of the Paraguayan army, attempted a coup in April of 1996. Wasmosy countered by offering Oviedo a ministerial position, but soon imprisoned him. In 1998, Raúl Cubas stood for the Colorado Party presidential nomination, his main policy being freeing Oviedo, and won.

In 2002, Wasmosy was convicted of defrauding the Paraguayan state and was himself sentenced to four years in prison. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04E7DE1E3CF935A25757C0A9649C8B63&sec=&pagewanted=print] The sentence was later appealed.

References

* [http://www.worldwhoswho.com/views/entry.html?id=was-0210 WASMOSY, Juan Carlos] International Who's Who. accessed September 3, 2006.


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