Tag Archives: Paraguay

Pope Francis will hold his first-ever meeting with a married gay activist during a visit to Paraguay next month. The activist is Simón Cazal, executive director of the Paraguayan LGBT rights group SOMOSGAY, who married another SOMOSGAY activist, Sergio López, in neighboring Argentina in 2012. Though the pope has reportedly held pastoral meetings with some LGBT people, this meeting marks …

Paraguay will hold its presidential election this Sunday and leading candidate Horacio Cartes has sparked a furor with ugly statements on gay rights. [Cartes] set off a fierce controversy here after publicly comparing gay people to “monkeys” and likening the support of same-sex marriage to believing in “the end of the world.” In a radio interview this month, Mr. Cartes, …

Here’s a bizarre President’s Day fact. The most popular former U.S. president in Paraguay is Rutherford B. Hayes. Forget Lincoln or Washington. Rutherford B. Hayes — a one-term U.S. president who is undistinguished at home — has a holiday, a province, a town, a museum and a soccer team all named in his honor, thanks to an 1878 arbitration in …