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Santiago Peña

President of Paraguay, 2023 to present

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A former finance minister from the Colorado Party who has courted investment and close ties with the United States and Taiwan.

Santiago Peña sits in the right-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly free market and leaning authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly free market on economy, strongly traditional on culture and strongly religious on religion.

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Where Santiago Peña sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityLeaning authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationLeaning nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismSlightly interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Santiago Peña

Ali al-Zaidi Prime Minister of Iraq, 2026 to present99%Nasry Asfura President of Honduras, 2026 to present99%Andrew Holness Prime Minister of Jamaica, 2011 to 2016 and 2016 to present99%Clarence Thomas US Supreme Court Justice, 1991 to present99%Scott Morrison Prime Minister of Australia, 2018 to 202299%Atal Bihari Vajpayee Prime Minister of India, 1996 and 1998 to 200499%Anutin Charnvirakul Prime Minister of Thailand, 2025 to present99%José Raúl Mulino President of Panama, 2024 to present99%

People furthest from Santiago Peña

Emma Goldman Russian-born anarchist and writer, 1869 to 19402%Murray Bookchin American social theorist, 1921 to 20064%John Lennon British musician and peace activist, 1940 to 19805%Peter Kropotkin Russian anarchist and naturalist, 1842 to 19215%

Political views closest to Santiago Peña

Liberal conservatismCombines free markets and limited government with respect for institutions, tradition…97%CorporatismOrganizes society into industry and professional bodies that bargain with the state, an…95%One-nation conservatismA paternalist conservatism holding that the better off owe duties to the poor and to…95%NeoconservatismPairs free markets and traditional values with an assertive, democracy-promoting foreign…93%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Presidencia de la República del Ecuador, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.