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Security & Strategic Review - November 2025
Boost for Paraguay’s Cartes as US lifts sanctions
The US government has lifted sanctions on Paraguay’s former president Horacio Cartes (2013-2018). The sanctions were applied under the previous US administration led by Joe Biden (2021-2025). However, the current government of President Donald Trump appears to be taking steps to ease the pressure on Cartes, who is the current party president of the ruling Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado (ANR-PC). Opposition lawmakers in Paraguay have claimed that the government of President Santiago Peña, who is considered a political protégé of Cartes, has acted like a “lackey” of the US. The opposition has suggested that the lifting of the sanctions could be a reward for Paraguay’s cooperation and alignment with the Trump administration. President Peña has denied these accusations of lobbying the US government on behalf of his mentor.
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