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BIOGRAPHY
Lino Oviedo, son of Mayor Ernesto Oviedo , former warrior of the war between Paraguay vs. Bolivia, during 1932 up to 1935, and in 1947 revolution in defense of the order and the legality, and of Mrs. Eva Silva de Oviedo, that has been a Teacher for more than fifty years, he was born in the city of Juan de Ore, Department of Cordillera, at September 23rd, 1943.
The first years of his school life they lapsed in their native town, and at the age of 12, he had gone to study at the National School in the Capital (Asunción).
It began their military career in 1958, when he was 14 year-old, at the Military School "Mariscal Francisco Solano López.".
Military studies:
| He enter into the Military School at March 6th , 1958. | He finished studies at December 13th , 1962 |
Promotions up to:
| Second Lieu Tenant of Cavalry at December 13th , 1962 Lieutenant of Cavalry at December 31st , 1964 First Lieutenant of Cavalry at December 31st , 1967 Captain of Cavalry at December 31st , 1971 Mayor of Cavalry at December 31st , 1976 Lieutenant Colonel of D.E.M at December 31st , 1981 Colonel of D.E.M at December 31st , 1985 Brigade General at May 12th , 1989 Division General at May 14th , 1992 |
Service Commissions:
To the Republic of Chile and Peru, as member of the Paraguayan team in the Equestrian Competition, years 1975 and 1976.
In Service Commissions and symposia in the following nations:
EQUESTRIAN INSTRUCTOR
Equestrian. Year 1967.
Its love to the equestrian sport has taken him to become an Equestrian Instructor. In this discipline, where he has achieved many nationals and internationals successes and rewards, because of his dexterity in handling of horses. Let us mention as an example the three conquests achieved in serial form in the denominated Fei Sansunmg International Competition at years 1989, 1990, 1991.
In the course of his career he carried out symposia, instruction tours, courses and sport competitions in different countries, with travels to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, United States, Panama, Peru, Uruguay, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, France, Holland, Italy, Denmark, United Kingdom of Great Britain, Switzerland, Korea, China, Japan, Morocco, Sudāfrica and Israel.
At the Federal Republic of Germany: Years 1969 and 1970.
German language - Military Terminology and Commander of the Company in the Armored Shooters arm ŋ Shooting Instructor in calibers 20 mm. and 106 mm.
Operation, maintenance, conservation and conduction of "Leopard and MS ŋ 10" combat cars ŋ
Physical Education Auxiliary.
School of Applications of the armed forces. Year 1974
In Military Intelligence. Year 1977.
School of Command and General Staff of the Armed Forces. Year 1978.
National School of War. Year 1990.
Another excellent aspects belonging General Oviedo is his qualified knowledge of the Use and Handling of Primary or Essential information, which are part of the learning acquired in the courses of Military Intelligence.
These last knowledge motivated him at the present time, to be one of the main initiators of the project that creates a National System of Intelligence of the Paraguayan State.
In the national aspect, he has stood out in greately in the courses of Command and General Staff of Military Intelligence and Physical Education. An intellectual complement that characterizes his studious personality and that it stands out in the academic formation of General Oviedo, it is his interest and personal dedication that it has taken into the study of languages. Also the improvement to speak fluently the autochthonous language or "guaraní".
Commander of the Army
In August 1993, he is promoted as Commander of the Army, constituting this fact a great honor and at the same time a great responsibility to General Lino Oviedo.
From the Command of the Army, it has undertaken what could be called you the "Reconquest of the Paraguayan Chaco", that is to say, the colonization of that extensive territory of the Western Region that has small human groups, taking until that area the voluntary contribution of the Army as regards basic resources so that the life in that wide territory, could be more bearable and with more human conditions for its inhabitants.
With their motto "healthy mind in a healthy body" he has declared an open war open to drugs traffic, a lash that it whips to all people, corrupting the society.
One of his main concerns is the environmental problem, in which through their constant initiatives on Defense and Protection of the Environment, he demonstrated in the national and International arena that the ecological topic is something really serious and worrying to the Humanity's survival. Every single great dependent units of the Army, they have begun an ambitious campaign in regarding reforestation and rational use of the Paraguayan territory resources.
His concern was not only bounded to the initiative, but rather a fighting plan was implemented against the traffic of tree rolls and undue use of the National Forest Patrimony.
We can glimpse inside the psycho-politic thought of General Lino Oviedo, a deep transformation of the military institution, where their members, at present time, they live more pending of integration and of national development; and mainly, with more opening to understand the necessities of the people, like an indispensable complement to the National Government's unified action, to search solutions to the primary problems of the marginal areas inside the Republic.
The children of the Gen. Oviedo are: Pamela Carolina, born at July 26th , 1971; Cesar Ariel, born at March 30th , 1978; Fabiola, born at May 15th , 1979; Lino Cesar, born at August 27th , 1987; María Raquel, born at April 3rd , 1989 and Lino Emanuel that he born at June 9th , 1993.
He is married with Dra. Rosalía Raquel Marín, graduated in university degree in chemistry and pharmacy.
At the time of Gen. Stroessner dictatorship
He had declared in favor of the institutional change of the Republic, being the first column of the freedom gest of February 2nd and 3rd , 1989, special circumstance, where he demonstrated all his military intelligence knowledge, in planning and execution of the strategy of the so yearn restoration of the democracy in Paraguay. The plan was successfully drove by his commands of the Regiment of Cavalry NÅ 3 "Cnel. Vicente Mongelós" and by Regiments and Units that fight in the Revolution of 1989. Chancy situation, where by force of anger and courage got in a personal and individual way by himself he obtain the capture of President of the Republic, Gen. Alfredo Stroessner, requesting and achieving their rendition, concluding in those moments a long dictatorship.
Established the new government, his figure became a true guarantee to secure the democratic process that began to walk in Paraguay, with a full opening of public freedoms, characteristic of every human person.
Up to April 22nd, 1996, he occupied the position of Commander of the Army, when after a theatrical farce the President Wasmosy ordered its relief and announced openly its appointment as Minister of Defense.
However missing their word once again, at April 24th , 1996 Gen. Lino Cesar Oviedo was gone to retirement by order of Wasmosy, then President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, not completing the announcement made openly on the appointment of Lino Oviedo as Minister of Defense. Unfortunately, this chapter will be finished up through the most atrocious persecution ever known in our history.
At May 15th , 1996, the NATIONAL UNION OF COLORADOS ETHICS (UNACE) it was already registered in the Electoral Tribunal of the Republican National Association as an internal movement of the Colorado Party, having as it maximum leader to Lino Oviedo.
But most of the Paraguayan people that clamored for him, suffered other bitter disappointment because of the persecution promoted against Oviedo by the officialists managed by Wasmosy that occupied the Presidency of the Nation at that time again and that it was presented as his more tenacious inquisitor.
At June 14th , 1996, Gen. Lino Oviedo went for the first time to prison for a supposed insurrection, facing the outrage as a citizen and as a soldier, in the Military Prison of Itauguā. Although having people supporting him, he preferred to be loyal to the democracy that he helped to conquer. The true cause of its prison was its confrontation against the corruption and against the plutocracy, smuggling and hoodlum prepared by Wasmosy himself, by the National Congress and by the Supreme Court of Justice. Lino Oviedo felt that in most of the Paraguayan people that from the beginning believed in him, the seeds of the ideals that it had sowed germinated.
August 7th , 1996 Lino Oviedo was get into freedom out of the Military Prison of Itauguā. Starting that same day, he traveled all the 17 departments of the Country visiting every national districts, narrowing hands of each Paraguayan that he crossed in his road, in a journey of 18 daily working hours. It was received and listened by those people full with hopes, in a speech that undoubtedly donÍt muddle the political panorama of that moment.
Meanwhile, the Paraguayan politic vultures, in their luxurious offices, discussed the way of how to remain maintaining their privileges and the way of strengthening the settlements that so good dividends surrendered them.
The cloudy panorama imposed by the terrorists paid by the politicians, nothing could make against the increase of popularity of Lino Oviedo.
Reviled, punished with immoral insults, with his name hurtled unpunishedly to the mud, with their family verbally lashed, merciless pursued, Lino Oviedo continued ahead, strengthened by the belief that sooner or later the truth would be imposed. And the Paraguayan people continued encouraging him.
At September 7th , 1997, they were carried out the Interns of the Republican National Association, Colorado Party, to choose the candidates of the party for the General Elections of the 10th of May, 1998. The list headed by Lino Oviedo triumphs in overwhelming form, seeming that with it, the verbal hates generated during the campaign would be extinguished.
Juan Carlos Wasmosy, at that time president of the Republic, making abuse of his power, it undertook a malicious and hapless action when ordering a second arrest of Lino Oviedo.
Lino Oviedo presented a preventive and generic demand of Hābeas Corpus that was conceived by the Judge Blanca Florentín who had the merit of returning the hope in the Justice and in the institutional normalization of the country. But little lasted that hope, because at October 30th , 1997, police and military forces and some strangers leveled in a terrible and ferocious way the home of Lino Oviedo. The vandal event took place with brutality for hooded invaders, that strongly armed they shot, inclusive in the rooms of the children of Oviedo and at children's presence, with the intention of intimidating those that were in the house. And most of the Paraguayan people, in solidarity with Oviedo, could witnessed again another fact of scorn of the human rights, caused by order of Wasmosy, in what it was a constant attitude in their 5 years of government.
Television images and pictures of the assault to the house of Lino Oviedo, was spread all over the world and they were in the front page of many newspapers, standing out one where it appears a hooded pointing with an it arm to the head of former President Eng. RaĪl Cubas that in that occasion was forced to lay face down in the floor. In our history there ever was not another political tragedy of such a magnitude.
That same day of October 30th, 1997, Judge Antonio Roux de Vargas fulfilled its duty in making justice, granting a Preventive Hābeas Corpus in favor of Lino Oviedo. The following day, October 31st , the Supreme Court of Justice managed by Wasmosy, revoke the Hābeas Preventive Corpus and Judge Antonio Roux de Vargas was suspended in its functions.
Without any possibilities to seek protection in Justice, at December 12th Lino Oviedo heÍs presented himself to fulfill the 30 days of imprisonment ordered by Wasmosy and he is driven up to the First Division of Infantry.
When they were finishing the 30 days of imprisonment of Lino Oviedo, Wasmosy manipulates to the armed forces again and thwarting the human rights and the National Constitution it orders the conformation of an Extraordinary Military Tribunal that makes the vilest aberration: it orders the preventive detention of Oviedo.
Following, when Judge Angel Cohene was able to sign the liberation order for Lino Oviedo, in an open challenge to the established order, he was pressed to desist of making it by Wasmosy and by some of the military commandants that to make it, they didn't doubt to take out to the streets their tanks of war, troops strongly armed and the military aviation making low height flights over the Palace of Justice.
At March 9th , 1998 the Extraordinary Military Tribunal condemns Lino Oviedo to 10 years in prison without any right of defense and through this way summing up in that day the most shameful manipulation exercised by Wasmosy in the armed forces and once again the Paraguayan people was witness of his irresponsibility and of his lack of dignity.
The paid assassins of Wasmosy were not yet were satisfied so at April 17th, 1998 the Supreme Court of Justice, for scarce margin of five votes against four, confirms the sentence given by the Extraordinary Military Tribunal against Lino Oviedo
In the face of the condemnation of Lino Oviedo, Eng. RaĪl Cubas Grau, victorious in the interns in the list headed by Lino Oviedo, he replaces him as candidate to the Presidency of the Republic.
After the confusion generated with the forced retirement of Lino Oviedo out of the competition, with the support of Lino Oviedo from the prison, the Eng. RaĪl Cubas Grau comes out victorious in the elections of May 10th , 1998 treating a tremendous punishment to the opposition Alliance.
At August 17th , 1998, through the Ordinance 117 of the President RaĪl Cubas Grau, aided by the Law 1285/98 that it regulates the reprieve and the commutation, returned the freedom to Lino Oviedo.
In an official statement to the public opinion of the Command of the Movement UNACE manifested its gratefulness to President RaĪl Cubas Grau as he make Justice, and to have used legal means to restore fully the civil and political rights to Lino Oviedo.
At that same day August 17th , 1998, there it was restructured the Military Tribunal and the first day of September, that same Tribunal declares the innocence of Lino Oviedo.
Chronology of their Political Career
April 24th , 1996: Gen. Lino Oviedo passes to retirement
May 15th , 1996: UNACE (National Union of Ethics Colorados) it is registered in the Electoral Tribunal of the ANR (Colorado Party )
June 14th , 1996: He is accused of insurrection and arrested and he is sent to the military prison of Itauguā.
August 7th , 1996: Justice leaves freedom order to Gen. Oviedo who leaves the military prison of Itauguā.
September 7th , 1997: The list headed by Gen. Oviedo triumphs in the interns of the ANR.
October 3rd , 1997: President Juan C. Wasmosy orders the second arrest of the Gen. Lino Cesar Oviedo. Oviedo did not presents himself to justice.
October 3rd , 1997: Preventive and generic Hābeas Corpus conceived by Judge Blanca Florentín.
October 3rd , 1997: Preventive and generic Habeas Corpus conceived by the Judge Blanca Florentín.
October 30th , 1997: Police and Military forces level the house of Gen. (S.R.) Lino Oviedo.
October 30th , 1997: Preventive Habeas Corpus in behalf of Gen. (S.R.) Lino C. Oviedo granted by Judge Roux Vargas.
October 31st , 1997: The Supreme Court of Justice avoid the Preventive Habeas Corpus granted by Judge Roux de Vargas.
December 12th , 1997: The Gen. (S.R.) Lino C. Oviedo presents himself in detention.
January 9th , 1998: A Military Tribunal orders the preventive detention of Oviedo who, at January 11th completed the 30 days arrest imposed by Wasmosy.
January 30th , 1998: Excitement took place because the possible liberation of the Gen. (S.R.) Lino Oviedo by Judge Angel Cohene.
March 9th, 1998: He is condemned to 10 years of imprisonment by an Extraordinary Military Tribunal.
May 10th, 1998: Eng. RaĪl Cubas who replaced Gen. (S.R.) Lino Oviedo as candidate of the ANR (Colorado Party) is elected President of the Republic of Paraguay.
April 17th, 1998: The Supreme Court of Justice confirms the sentence of Gen. (S.R.) Lino Cesar Oviedo.
August 17th, 1998: The President RaĪl Cubas restructures the Military Tribunal that condemned Oviedo.
September 1st, 1998: The Military Tribunal with new evidences brought into the lawsuit, declares him innocent.
Unace
At May 15th, 1996 the Movement National Union of Ethical Colorados under the presidency of the Gen. Lino Oviedo who had passed into retirement less than one month ago, was matriculated in the Registry of the Tribunal Electoral of the Party. The inscription was made with the signature of more than 15.000 adherent supporters, a quantity at June 15th, that is to say to 30 days after of its inscription, it was increased up to around 90.000. That made that Gen. Oviedo was constituted in a concern for the National Government, and particularly to President Wasmosy, since he considered that after having raised him of the Command of the Army, Lino Oviedo would be a political corpse that didn't have no way neither possibilities of overcoming up to such adverse situation.
Mission of Peace
In 1997, Gen. Lino Cesar Oviedo was sent to integrate the Mission of Peace where the three monotheistic religions, Christians, Jew and Muslim, meetings together would begin to drive the way to peace.
AUTHORITIES OF THE MISSION OF PEACE.
Designated ministers:
Managing bishop of the maronita mission in the Argentina. Member of the Argentinean Bishopric.
Monsignor Cardel Merhi.
Director of the Center of Islamic Studies for the Argentina and South America.
Imam Mahmud Husain
Director of Jewish Studies for the Argentina (AMIA).
Professor Alberto Abraham Szwarc
Ministers consultants:
President of World Solidarity among Nations, Towns and Cultures.
Professor Francisco López y Diez
President of the Way to Trialogo of Asunción
General Lino Cesar Oviedo
Itinerant Ambassador of the Tríalogo of Rome, 2nd Vice-president of World Solidarity
Lic. Carlos Fortunato Peralta
Coordinator of the Mission of Peace and Treasurer of World Solidarity
Professor Osvaldo Gentile
In Rome:
President of the Tríalogo of Rome and Italian government's Senator
Dr. Giulio Andreotti
Doctor Raffaello Fellah
General secretary of the Tríalogo
In Buenos Aires:
Enrique Todero, Tríalogo of Rome
Notary Sandalio Gerardo Silva
Dra. Georgette Grayeb, Way to Tríalogo
Doctor Cayetano Scerbo, World Solidarity
Representatives of the three cultures: Cristians, Jews and Muslim
Lic. RaĪl Ruitor
Professor Andrŗs Farenga
Marcelo Lico Marcellini
Lior Sela
Héctor Kolsky
Doctor Homar Hazime
In Miami:
Eng. Arturo Molinari. Founder Delegate
Special correspondent:
Doctor Néstor Perl Plenipotentiary minister at the Embassy of the Argentina in Rome, Italy