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Lino César Oviedo Sánchez

Paraguayan politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ6554667 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lino César Oviedo Sánchez is a Paraguayan politician. He is a member of the Senate of Paraguay for the National Union of Ethical Citizens (UNACE) since 2008. He is the nephew of Lino César Oviedo Silva, usually known as Lino Oviedo; the elder Oviedo was the former leader of UNACE, and a divisive political figure in Paraguay.

Oviedo Sánchez became the presidential candidate of UNACE in the April 2013 elections when his uncle Oviedo Silva was killed in a helicopter accident on 2 February 2013. He ended up receiving only 0.8% of the vote.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Lino César Oviedo Sánchez” is paraguayan politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Lino, César and Oviedo, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Lino, César and Oviedo is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “paraguayan politician” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6554667. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lino César Oviedo Sánchez” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.