Blas Nicolás Riquelme Centurión (born 3 February 1929,
Lambaré, died 2 September 2012;
Asunción) was a
Paraguayan politician and businessman.
[ Senate of Paraguay]
Senador Blas Nicolás Riquelme Centurión
accessed 27 June 2012 He was a member of the
Senate of Paraguay for the
Colorado Party from 1989 to 2008, and was elected President of the party,
[ succeeding Luis María Argaña; he resigned in 1994. He was a candidate in the Colorado Party's 1996 ]primary election
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for the 1998 presidential election, backed by Lino Oviedo. He was leader of the Movimiento Tradicionalismo Democrático (TRADEM), and one of the major financiers of the Colorado Party.[ '']La Nacion
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'', 14 March 2012
Blas N. Riquelme planea volver a integrar el Senado
He was President of the Chamber of Industry until 1984.[Rene Harder Horst (2000)]
Political Advocacy and Religious Allegiance: Catholic Missions and Indigenous Resistance in Paraguay, 1982-1992
p14
As a businessman, Riquelme was director/president of a number of companies, including Cereales S.A. (flour and cereals); Cervecera Asunción S.A. and Cervecera Itapúa S.A. (beer); Cadena Real S.A. (supermarkets); Campo Morumbí S.A. (farming); and Cristalera Asunción S.A. (glass). He is also a major landowner. In 1985 he ordered the removal of 100 Mbayá people
The Mbayá or ''Mbyá'' are an indigenous people of South America which formerly ranged on both sides of the Paraguay River, on the north and northwestern Paraguay frontier, eastern Bolivia, and in the adjacent province of Mato Grosso do Sul, Braz ...
from his 75,000 hectare landholding in the Alto Paraná Department; he had previously pressured them for ten years to leave their ancestral Paso Romero community, after he had purchased the property.[ In 2012 the violent removal of occupying farmers from Riquelme's land in the ]Canindeyú Department
Canindeyú () is a department in Paraguay. The capital is the city of Salto del Guairá.
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sparked the impeachment of Fernando Lugo. He has been unsuccessfully sued by farmers alleging irregularities in his 1975 acquisition of land (under the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner), following Truth and Justice Commission conclusions of irregularities.[ Comision de Verdad y Justicia (2008)]
Infome Final: Tomo IV
, pp37-9
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Official page
at Senate of Paraguay
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1929 births
2012 deaths
Colorado Party (Paraguay) politicians
Members of the Senate of Paraguay