Blanca Ovelar
Guide Note: Blanca Ovelar is a politician and former school teacher in Paraguay. Currently, she is the presidential candidate for the ruling Colorado Party in the upcoming 2008 Election. She won the nomination, aided in large part by an endorsement from current president Nicanor Duarte, on January 11, 2007 with 45.04% of the primary vote. She is the first woman to be nominated as a presidential candidate in Paraguay and if elected she will be the first female president in the country's history. Recent polls have shown Ovelar in third place with 28.5% of the vote, behind Lino Oviedo's 28.9% and Fernando Lugo's 34.5%.
Fast Facts:
- Born: September 2, 1957
- Worked as a rural school teacher
- Former Minister of Education
- Presidential candidate for the ruling Colorado Party
- Received an endorsement from President Niconar Duarte
- Received nomination on January 21, 2007
- First woman to run for president in Paraguay
- Recent polls place her in a close third with 28.5% of the vote
- Also try: Paraguay Election 2008
Blanca Ovelar News and Information
- Wikipedia: Blanca Ovelar
- Google News: Blanca Ovelar
- OneWorld News: Paraguay: Women Unimpressed by Female Candidate (April 10, 2008)
- "What she actually represents is 60 years of domination by the Colorado Party, 60 years of poverty and injustice. I think it would be very hard for her to reverse that long history, and I don't think she can change it all just because she's a woman."
- TVNZ News: Paraguay's Ruling Party Faces an Election Fight (March 29, 2008)
- "No political party in power in the world has governed as long as Paraguay's Colorado Party, which has held a tight and sometimes brutal grip on this poor South American country for more than six decades...but the center-right party is now facing one of its strongest challenges ever in the country's April 20 presidential election."
- Angus Reid: Lugo Ahead of Ovelar and Oviedo in Paraguay (March 26, 2008)
- International Herald Tribune: Woman Leads Ruling Party's Primary (December 17, 2007)
- CNN: First Woman Nominated for Paraguay President (January 21, 2008)
Blanca Ovelar Blogs and Commentaries
- Countries at the Crossroads: End of the Road for Paraguay's Colorados? (April 14, 2008)
- Upside Down World: Dissecting the Politics of Paraguay’s Next President (April 10, 2008)
- Granma International: Between Old Party Rule and Change (March 18, 2008)
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