But the head of the lower house and Cartes ally, Hugo Velazquez, told reporters on Monday the vote would be delayed until the dialogue Cartes requested took place.
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Cartes had invited opponents to the dialogue late on Sunday.
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President Horacio Cartes vetoed Congress' budget proposal, which limited debt issuance.
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Cartes had traveled to Israel to inaugurate the new embassy in May.
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Government spokesman Mariano Mercado says Cartes will leave for the trip on Saturday.
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Digitized now are cartes de visite, stereoviews, hand-painted tintypes, cyanotypes, and daguerreotypes.
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The victor had proven his independent streak by opposing Mr Cartes in the senate.
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Without Lugo or Cartes there are currently few clear candidates for next year's election.
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Mr. Cartes was elected president of Paraguay, and neither he nor Tabesa was charged.
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Analysts say Cartes still has plenty of time before the deadline to win enough votes.
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Ensuite, Orange Cash génère des cartes virtuels Visa qui pourront être utilisées par Apple Pay.
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Cartes de visite are baseball card–sized portraits that people shared and collated in albums.
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Cartes called for calm and a rejection of violence in a statement released on Twitter.
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Under the measure, center-right President Horacio Cartes could have sought re-election in 2018.
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Cartes, 63, is considered one of the richest men in Paraguay and remains politically influential.
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Allies of Mr Cartes, a rich businessman, argue that Paraguay's democracy no longer needs such swaddling.
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" Cartes has not appeared in public since Friday but published an official statement calling for "calm.
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Most of these were printed as cartes de visite and sold to support her abolitionist work.
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Tabesa was founded by Horacio Cartes, a prominent businessman who in 2013 was elected president of Paraguay.
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Cartes said Pope Francis inspired his "gesture of renunciation" in a country that emerged from dictatorship in 1989.
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The following day, Cartes dismissed both Minister of the Interior Tadeo Rojas and National Police Commander Crispulo Sotelo.
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Mr. Abdo Benítez belongs to a more conservative wing of the party than the departing president, Horacio Cartes.
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The most recent politician to feel the repercussions was Santiago Peña, a close ally of President Horacio Cartes.
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Cartes couldn&apost seek re-election and the Senate seat would be a way to extend his political influence.
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Senator Lilian Samaniego, a Cartes ally, said re-election supporters would not be deterred by the protests and opposition.
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Paraguay's president, Horacio Cartes, dropped his plan to change the country's constitution to allow him to seek re-election.
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Opposition legislators and dissident members of Cartes' center-right Colorado party had challenged the constitutionality of the planned sale.
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The grains-exporting country has issued $1.88 billion in debt since Cartes, a businessman, came to power in 2013.
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"If jobs are so important, why wouldn't we take care of employers," Cartes said at the Estrela factory opening.
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This time it was Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes at the inauguration ceremony for the South American nation's embassy in Jerusalem.
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The protesters were enraged by recent changes to Senate rules that would allow President Horacio Cartes to seek re-election.
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Paraguay has emitted $1.88 billion in international bonds under Cartes, a former business magnate of the center-right Colorado party.
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Changing the constitution without Cartes on the ballot would benefit former leftist President Fernando Lugo, who Congress ousted in 2012.
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In Paraguay, some academics say Cartes' policies are depriving the government of revenue for long-term development, particularly in infrastructure.
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Cartes fired Paraguay's national police chief on Saturday, and an officer was charged with homicide of the protestor on Monday.
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Some fear that the beneficiary of re-election will be Mr Lugo, who was impeached in 2012, rather than Mr Cartes.
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In December, Cartes vetoed a budget proposal passed in Congress that limited the amount of debt issuance allowed to $349 million.
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Paraguay's president, Horacio Cartes, who belongs to the Colorado party, once led by Stroessner, has tried to modernise the dictator's framework.
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Cartes' government says it created 21,333 manufacturing jobs between August of 2013 and December of 2016, generating $900 million in exports.
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Cartes, a former soft-drink and tobacco businessman who took office in 2013, has raised Paraguay's presence in international bond markets.
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Cartes canceled a trip to Argentina to attend a dialogue opposition leaders, currently set for Wednesday, Lozaiga told reporters on Tuesday.
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So he said he struck up a relationship with Mr. Cartes, posing as someone who could smuggle cigarettes into foreign countries.
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"We have to safeguard the republic," said Senator Blanca Ovelar, a member of Cartes' Colorado Party who has broken with the president.
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It comes less than two months before Mario Abdo Benitez replaces Cartes, and the president-elect has said he wasn&apost consulted.
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Mr Alegre failed to draw blood by deriding Mr Abdo Benítez as a puppet of Mr Cartes or a would-be Stroessner.
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We saw the proliferation of the cartes-de-visite, studio portraits—[photography's] utilization to establish the idea of the nation and its individuals.
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Protesters indicated they will stop demonstrating once they get a commitment from Cartes that he will not seek a second five-year term.
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Paraguay's measure would apply to future presidents and Cartes, a soft-drink and tobacco mogul elected to a five-year term in 2013.
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Cartes has been held up as an example of the right-wing's resurgence in Latin America, following a period of widespread social democracy.
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This was the experience of those who bought the small, inexpensive cardboard-mounted photographs known as cartes de visite in the 19th century.
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In the note, Cartes presents himself as a life senator and an elected senator, a status that would grant him immunity from prosecution.
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President Horacio Cartes' government plans to use the sale to pay off existing debt and finance infrastructure projects in the landlocked South American country.
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The warrant against Cartes, who was president of Paraguay from 2013 to 2018, is already in the red notice of Interpol, the court added.
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That request was formally rejected on Tuesday, but Senator Julio Cesar Velazquez, a Cartes ally, convened a special session anyway with a group of legislators.
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I have not been able to track down the original drawings, but they survive through cartes de visite taken by San Francisco photographer William Shew.
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The re-election measure would apply to future presidents and Cartes, a soft-drink and tobacco mogul elected to a five-year term in 2013.
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The party closed ranks after a bitter primary in December, when Mr Abdo Benítez defeated Santiago Peña, the dauphin of the outgoing president, Horacio Cartes.
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President Horacio Cartes dedicated the embassy on Monday, making Paraguay the third country to transfer its diplomatic mission in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
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Outgoing President Horacio Cartes, who tried to change the constitution to allow him to seek a second term, won a Senate seat in Sunday's vote.
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Outgoing President Horacio Cartes has already vetoed the export tax bill once and has started infrastructure projects expected to be continued by Abdo after his Aug.
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Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes ordered the military to bring order to Ciudad del Este, long known as a hub for trafficking counterfeit goods, drugs and weapons.
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Violent protests in Asuncion last month over Cartes' attempts to change the country's constitution and run for a second term raised eyebrows among business groups, however.
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Other cartes-de-visite from the album portray individuals from antislavery lawyer Charles Sumner and British novelist Charles Dickens to entertainers Commodore Nutt and his wife.
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BUENOS AIRES — It was a sweltering afternoon at the rundown central bus station in Argentina's capital, but Amelia Cartes Novoa was beaming despite the intolerable heat.
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But supporters of Mr. Cartes, whose conservative Colorado Party held a tight grip on power for six decades until 2008, saw an opening to change it.
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A year ago, protesters reacted to the aspirations of then-president Horacio Cartes, also of the Colarado Party, to extend his mandate by burning part of Congress.
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ASUNCION (Reuters) - Paraguay has joined forces with Argentina and Uruguay in a joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup finals, President Horacio Cartes said on Thursday.
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While Abdo campaigned on a promise to continue Cartes' business-friendly policies, he also said the country would pursue more aggressive tax policies to increase government coffers.
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Mr Cartes, a tobacco magnate, won the presidency in 2013 in part by promising to ramp up spending on public works with cash from the private sector.
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"I'm so excited," Ms. Cartes said as she waited on a platform for the bus that would take her on a 22017-hour ride across the Andes.
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Cartes in a letter to Paraguay's prosecutor called on the body to investigate the case, which he said involved conduct that "entirely" took place within Paraguayan territory.
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"I present myself and make myself available to the Public Ministry so that... the facts and behaviors attributed to my person are investigated and judged," Cartes wrote.
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That was the excuse that Horacio Cartes, Paraguay's president, used to drop his plan to run for a second consecutive term in 21998, which required changing the constitution.
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On the opening night the president, Horacio Cartes, unveiled the results of a national branding exercise: a logo of flora, lorries and silos in soothing blues and greens.
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"If he (Cartes) is not a candidate, I can assure you that the chance of the amendment passing in the lower house are minimal, practically impossible," said Alliana.
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Cartes, a political neophyte who said he had never voted in an election before casting a ballot for himself, was elected to a five-year term in 2013.
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According to Whatsapp messages introduced as evidence in the trial in Brooklyn, Juan Angel Napout traded World Cup tickets for political favors from Cartes and other Paraguayan officials.
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Investors favor Cartes' low-tax policies and credit him with spurring growth in Paraguay, the world's No. 4 soy exporter and long one of South America's poorest countries.
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The Brazilian federal judge alleged tobacco magnate Cartes - Paraguay's president from 2013 to 2018 - helped an influential dealer Dario Messer before his arrest last July in Sao Paulo.
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Opposition leader Efrain Alegre said he would participate in the dialogue called by Cartes only after an investigation into Quintana's death was completed and Friday's Senate vote was annulled.
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"I can confirm that we, the Presidents of #Paraguay #Argentina and #Uruguay have agreed to fight for the nomination of 2030 football World Cup," Cartes said in a tweet.
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The violence stems from the ruling Colorado Party's decision to create an alternative Senate with the goal of passing laws that would allow Cartes to seek a second term.
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In early February, Patricia Cartes, Twitter's head of global policy outreach, announced the formation of a Trust & Safety Council, a multidisciplinary advisory board comprised of 40 organizations and experts.
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Cartes, who was not eligible for re-election, tried to resign in July to become a national senator, but Congress rejected his resignation, obliging him to complete his mandate.
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Nor has Mr Cartes reduced much the shadow economy, which employs perhaps two-thirds of workers and pays salaries that are 40% lower than those in the formal sector.
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Paraguay's Commerce and Trade Minister Gustavo Leite told Reuters that Cartes is committed to the low-tax policy and has no plans to seek more revenue from Brazilian companies.
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Image 2 of 2 ASUNCION, Paraguay – Horacio Cartes has resigned from the presidency of Paraguay — a long-expected step that paves the way for him to take a Senate seat.
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ASUNCION, Paraguay – Paraguay&aposs President Horacio Cartes has suffered at least a temporary a setback in his effort to take up a Senate seat once his term ends in August.
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Protesters stormed and set fire to Paraguay's Congress on Friday after the Senate secretly voted for a constitutional amendment that would allow President Horacio Cartes to run for re-election.
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"Our Trust & Safety Council will help us tap into the expertise and input of organizations at the intersection of these issues more efficiently and quickly," Cartes said in her post.
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"We have lost interest in continuing to push for this due to our candidate's decision," said Hugo Velazquez, a member of the lower house and member of Cartes' Colorado Party.
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But the country's Supreme Court ruled in favor of Cartes' center-right administration in February, which the treasury ministry said at the time would serve as an assurance to investors.
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Protesters set fire to Paraguay's congress after the ruling Colorado Party set up a separate senate to enact laws that would allow the president, Horacio Cartes, to run for re-election.
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ASUNCION, Paraguay – Paraguay&aposs government says President Horacio Cartes will open the country&aposs new embassy to Israel in Jerusalem on Tuesday, following similar steps by the United States and Guatemala.
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Museum experts will also study the other cartes-de-visite in the album, which includes portraits of many people from Auburn, where the heroic abolitionist had lived for over 50 years.
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BUENOS AIRES, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Paraguay's Congress reduced the approved amount of debt issuance allowed in 2017 in the budget bill it passed on Thursday, a blow to President Horacio Cartes.
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A practicing photographer, he sometimes used his own images but very often worked from existing cartes de visite or glass plates by photographers such as the Foy Brothers and Elizabeth Pulman.
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Out of that alliance came the creation of her first major piece, "Jeu de Cartes," which established Ms. Charrat as an important new and notably female voice in the dance world.
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Meanwhile, Mr. Cartes, 60, issued a statement on Friday night in which he blamed his opponents and the news media for the protests, saying they had "the objective of destroying democracy."
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This week a group of senators asked for a special session that the opposition interpreted as the start of a new campaign by Cartes and his coalition to enable presidential re-election.
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ASUNCION (Reuters) - Protesters stormed and set fire to Paraguay's Congress on Friday after the Senate secretly voted for a constitutional amendment that would allow President Horacio Cartes to run for re-election.
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The rare picture, preserved in an album of 44 cartes-de-visite, was taken by an unknown, local photographer in Auburn, where she moved to care for her family after the war.
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While Paraguay long suffered from political uncertainty, the soy and beef-exporting nation has been attracting investment in agriculture and manufacturing sectors in recent years as Cartes offered tax breaks to foreign investors.
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The situation in the country deteriorated after Cartes, who heads the conservative Colorado Party, indicated he wanted to change the constitution so he could be reelected after his first term runs out in 2018.
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The diversity of portraits can be seen in materials — there are daguerreotypes; tintypes; cartes de visite, or small prints mounted on cards that could be mailed; lithographs; even F.B.I. wanted posters — and in content.
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Paraguay's political crisis turned violent last Thursday, when senators allied with President Horacio Cartes and former left-wing president Fernando Lugo approved a bill advancing a constitutional amendment that would allow presidents to seek reelection.
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In a bid to create jobs, Cartes built on a 236 reform that allowed foreign exporters to pay taxes in the low single figures and excluded them from customs tariffs with additional pro-business measures.
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In a blog announcing the move, Patricia Cartes, Twitter's Head of Global Policy Outreach, writes that a "multi-layered approach" is necessary "to ensure people can continue to express themselves freely and safely on Twitter".
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"I really want the pope to come to Argentina, but I agree this is not the right time," said Lautaro Bazán, 20, who was set to board the same bus to Chile as Ms. Cartes.
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Late on Sunday, Cartes called on different political factions to meet and discuss ways to reduce tensions in the South American country of 6.8 million after an appeal from Pope Francis, who hails from neighboring Argentina.
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The protests punctured a period of relative stability under Cartes in which the soy and beef exporting nation became one of South America's fastest-growing economies and began moving past a long history of political uncertainty.
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Supporters of Cartes, a former soft-drink and tobacco businessman, want him to be able to seek a second term in a country that constitutionally forbid re-election after a 35-year dictatorship fell in 1989.
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ASUNCION (Reuters) - Paraguayan business groups are urging the country's Congress to abandon a proposal that would allow President Horacio Cartes to seek re-election, fearing popular outrage could jeopardize his administration's progress in attracting foreign investment.
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Cartes has been trying to shed Paraguay's reputation for lawlessness in recent years, and Brazilian investment in the landlocked nation of 6.8 million has helped spur one of the fastest economic growth rates in Latin America.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Viewpoints, an exhibition at the New York Public Library on photography in Latin America, begins with an enigmatic set of four sepia cartes de visite from 1863, all depicting women.
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The studio — which, starting in the 1860s, produced cabinet cards and cartes de visite that propelled it to prominence — has since 53 occupied an old, four-story structure owned by Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC).
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A previously unrecorded photograph of Harriet Tubman has resurfaced from an album of cartes-de-visite, showing a considerably younger image of the abolitionist than those captured in other known portraits.
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Three years later came the success of "Jeu de Cartes," to the Stravinsky score of the same name, for the Ballets de Champs-Élysées, with a cast that included Ms. Charrat, Jean Babilée, Nathalie Phillippart and Petit.
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The violent upheaval punctured a period of relative stability under Cartes, in which the soy and beef exporting nation became one of South America's fastest-growing economies and began to move past a long history of political uncertainty.
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Ms. Cartes is among the tens of thousands of Argentines planning to make a pilgrimage to Chile during the peak of the summertime holiday to catch a glimpse of the pope, who was born here in Buenos Aires.
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ASUNCION (Reuters) - Security forces surrounded Paraguay's Congress on Tuesday while lawmakers argued over a possible change in law that would allow President Horacio Cartes to run for re-election, a move that the opposition says would weaken democratic institutions.
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ASUNCION (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters gathered outside Paraguay's Congress on Monday evening in a new but peaceful demonstration over an unpopular Senate vote for an amendment last week that would allow President Horacio Cartes to run for re-election.
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ASUNCION (Reuters) - Two top Paraguayan government officials were fired on Saturday after a protester died in violent clashes sparked by a secret Senate vote on a constitutional amendment that would allow President Horacio Cartes to run for re-election.
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The meetings were being held after protesters stormed and set fire to Paraguay's Congress late on Friday following a secret vote in the Senate for a constitutional amendment that would allow President Horacio Cartes to run for re-election.
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In a letter to the Archbishop of Asuncion that was shared on Twitter, Cartes, a former soft-drink and tobacco executive, said his decision not to run was inspired by Pope Francis's call for peace and dialogue in Paraguay.
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ASUNCION (Reuters) - Paraguay will move its embassy in Israel back to Tel Aviv, reversing a May decision by former President Horacio Cartes to move the diplomatic site to Jerusalem, the South American country's foreign minister told reporters on Wednesday.
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ASUNCION (Reuters) - A U.N. official on Tuesday called for an investigation into the killing of a Paraguayan protester during violent demonstrations last week, while President Horacio Cartes canceled an overseas trip to concentrate on resolving the country's political crisis.
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In highlighting a centuries-old Peruvian custom believed to have derived from Moorish influence in Spain centuries earlier, these somewhat mysterious cartes de visite illustrate one among many instances of complex colonial and cross-cultural exchange in the exhibition.
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It sits across from the Préfecture de Police de Paris — imposing in its own way — where we regularly went, mounds of documents in hand, to get our cartes de séjour, which let us Americans live and work in Paris.
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Protesters in Paraguay stormed the Congress and set fire to part of the building on Friday after the Senate voted to amend the Constitution to allow President Horacio Cartes to seek re-election, raising concerns over renewed political instability.
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ASUNCION (Reuters) - Paraguay's President Horacio Cartes said on Monday he would not be a candidate in next year's election in order to preserve stability in the South American nation, regardless of whether Congress passed an amendment to allow second terms.
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Digging into history and offering a glimpse of a future narrative, the show features some 100 archival, vintage and contemporary photographs from the Catherine E. McKinley collection, a trove of photographic prints, cartes de visite and postcards spanning the African continent.
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ASUNCION (Reuters) - Paraguayan former president Horacio Cartes said on Monday he was open to the country's prosecutors' officer investigating him after a Brazilian judge issued a warrant for his arrest last week as part of the widespread "Car Wash" corruption probe.
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Protesters stormed Paraguay's Congress building and set it on fire on Friday amid violent demonstrations over a secret Senate vote earlier in the day to approve a bill that would allow President Horacio Cartes to run for re-election.
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The names on those cartes de visite to St. Elizabeths constitute a roll call of major American poets: John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, T. S. Eliot, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, W. S. Merwin, Charles Olson, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky and others.
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One of the earliest examples of this in the show is Juan Gris's 1916 painting "Cartes à jouer et siphon" (Playing cards and siphon), in which the words "Le Journal" (the newspaper) appear in a Cubist still life of a card table.
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Abdo, 46, a conservative Colorado party politician, replaces businessman and Colorado party member Horacio Cartes, a former soft-drink and tobacco executive who oversaw one of Latin America's highest growth rates and raised Paraguay's presence in global bond markets in his five-year term.
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The gala's other three items featured the company's three senior ballerinas: Megan Fairchild in Peter Martins's "Jeu de Cartes" (1992, Stravinsky); Ashley Bouder in George Balanchine's "Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux" (1960); and Maria Kowroski in the duet from Christopher Wheeldon's "After the Rain" (2005).
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Megan Fairchild, bubbly and daffy in Peter Martins's "Jeu de Cartes" (1992), has never been more adult or womanly than in two ballets by Alexei Ratmansky, "Russian Seasons" (2006) and "Odessa" (new last week — she was second-cast in the role made for Sterling Hyltin).
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As Levine's selection of cartes de visite, personal snapshots, commercial imagery, and more shows, knitting has served in the past to indicate that a woman is a skilled housewife or good mother — but it's also a popular hobby or means to relax, enjoyed by men as much as women.
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"With hundreds of millions of Tweets sent per day, the volume of content on Twitter is massive, which makes it extraordinarily complex to strike the right balance between fighting abuse and speaking truth to power," Patricia Cartes, Twitter's head of global policy outreach, said in a blog post.
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Elicetche and other business leaders said they would be open to a reform allowing for consecutive re-election beginning with the next president, and would even support a run by Cartes in five years but were wary of what appeared to be an effort to hold onto power.
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While they generally back Cartes' center-right government, they have said he should give up on running in 2018 for a second five-year term to preserve economic growth in the world's No. 20153 soy exporter and keep on track the country's progress toward a coveted investment-grade credit rating.
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Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes, an almost comically criminal businessman who campaigned with Alfredo Stroessner's Colorado Party and has defended the dictator's legacy since entering office, took over as president of Stroessner's Club Libertad in 2001 and named its remodeled stadium after Nicolas Leoz, the soon-to-be-extradited former CONMEBOL president.
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At first, that might be thought of a sheet of uncut cartes de visite that recorded the execution of Emperor Maximilian I. It was designed to be divided up, and those passport-size photographs were then bought by Mexicans celebrating after the downfall of the French-imposed ruler in 1867.
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The military theme in Léger's oeuvre remains prominent in post-WWI paintings like "La partie de cartes" ("The Card Game," 19247), where three decorated soldiers tumble out of themselves and ripple across the picture plane, merging into an ecstatic ménage à trois through the interlacing repetitions of their machine forms.
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