This is a list of foreign ministers of Paraguay from 1846 to the present day.1846–1855: José Falcón 1855–1862: Nicolás Vázquez 1862: Domingo Francisco Sánchez 1862–1868: José Berges 1868: Gumersindo Benítez (acting) 1868–1869: Luis Caminos 1869–1870: Serapio Machaín (acting) 1870: Bernardo Recalde (acting) 1870–1871: Miguel Palacios 1871: Carlos Loizaga 1871: José Segundo Decoud 1871–1872: José Falcón 1872–1873: Gregorio Benítez Inchausti 1873–1874: José del Rosario Miranda (acting) 1874: Cándido Bareiro 1874: Higinio Uriarte 1874–1877: Facundo Machaín 1877: Benjamín Aceval 1877–1878: Juan Antonio Jara 1878–1880: Benjamín Aceval 1880–1886: José Segundo Decoud 1886–1887: Benjamín Aceval 1887: Agustín Cañete (acting) 1887–1888: José Segundo Decoud 1888–1890: Juan Crisóstomo Centurión 1890–1894: Venancio Víctor López 1894–1895: Héctor Velázquez 1895–1900: José Segundo Decoud 1900–1901: Fabio Queirolo 1901–1902: Juan Cancio Flecha 1902: Manuel Domínguez 1902–1903: Pedro Pablo Peña 1903: Cayetano Carreras 1903–1904: Antolín Irala 1904–1905: Gualberto Cardús Huerta 1905: Cecilio Báez 1905–1906: Cayetano Carreras (acting) 1906: Adolfo Rufo Soler 1906–1908: Cecilio Báez 1908: Eusebio Ayala 1908–1910: Manuel Gondra 1910–1911: Héctor Velázquez 1911: Cecilio Báez 1911: Teodosio González 1911: Carlos Luis Isasi 1911–1912: Antolín Irala 1912: Fulgencio Ricardo Moreno 1912: Félix Paiva 1912: Eusebio Ayala 1912–1913: Félix Paiva 1913–1918: Manuel Gondra 1918–1919: Eusebio Ayala 1919–1920: Ramón Lara Castro 1920–1921: Manuel Peña Rojas 1921–1923: Alejandro Arce 1923–1924: Rogelio Ibarra Muñoz 1924–1925: Manuel Peña Rojas 1925–1928: Enrique Bordenave 1928–1931: Gerónimo Zubizarreta 1931–1932: Raúl Casal Ribeiro 1932: Higinio Arbo 1932–1934: Justo Pastor Benítez 1935–1936: Luis Alberto Riart 1936–1937: Juan Stefanich 1937–1938: Cecilio Báez 1938–1939: Elías Ayala 1939–1940: Justo Pastor Prieto Rojas 1940: Justo Pastor Benítez 1940: Tomás Andrés Salomoni 1940–1944: Luis Andrés Argaña 1944–1946: Horacio Chiriani Cotor 1946: Antonio Alberto Taboada 1946–1947: Miguel Ángel Soler 1947: Federico Chaves 1947–1948: César Augusto Vasconsellos 1948: Domingo Montanaro 1948–1949: Juan Emiliano O'Leary (acting) 1949: Federico Chaves 1949–1952: Bernardo Ocampos 1952–1953: Ángel Florentín Peña 1953–1954: José Antonio Moreno González 1954–1956: Hipólito Sánchez Quell 1956–1976: Raúl Sapena Pastor 1975–1983: Alberto Nogués 1983–1988: Carlos Augusto Saldívar 1988–1989: Rodney Elpidio Acevedo 1989–1990: Luis María Argaña 1990–1993: Alexis Frutos Vaesken 1993: Diógenes Martínez 1993–1996: Luis María Ramírez Boettner 1996–1998: Rubén Melgarejo Lanzoni 1998–1999: Dido Florentín Bogado 1999: Miguel Abdón Saguier 1999–2000: José Félix Fernández Estigarribia 2000–2001: Juan Esteban Aguirre Martínez 2001–2003: José Antonio Moreno Ruffinelli 2003–2006: Leila Rachid de Cowles 2006–2008: Rubén Ramírez Lezcano 2008–2009: Alejandro Hamed 2009–2011: Héctor Lacognata 2011–2012: Jorge Lara Castro 2012–2013: José Félix Fernández Estigarribia 2013–2018: Eladio Loizaga 2018–2019: Luis Castiglioni 2019–2020: Antonio Rivas Palacios 2020–2021: Federico González Franco 2021–2022: Euclides Acevedo 2022–2023: Julio Arriola 2023–present: Rubén Ramírez Lezcano