Osvaldo Domínguez Dibb is a Paraguayan politician, businessman and ex-president of Olimpia Asunción.
Career
Dibb is mostly known for being the most successful president in the history of Paraguayan football clubOlimpia. He served as president for the terms of 1974 to 1990 and from 1995 to 2004. Under his presidency, Olimpia won a large number of national championships, but most importantly the club won most of its international titles such as three Copa Libertadores, the Intercontinental Cup, the Copa Interamericana and the Recopa Sudamericana. All the mentioned titles catapulted Olimpia as one of the most respected football clubs in South America. Dominguez also owned several companies in Paraguay including a newspaper company, a radio station, a hotel, a restaurant, a real estate, two tobacco factories and one of them having a worth of more than 90 million dollars, the only ironbottle cap factory in the country, owner of a luxurious private neighborhood in San Bernardino, and more. He is one of the biggest shareholders in many businesses like Cervepar, De la Sobera Group and Coca-Cola in Paraguay. He is also known for having a lot of very valuable ranches and being one of the biggest cattle sellers in the country. Dominguez has several properties around the country and also around Brazil. In 2002, he lost in the primary elections of the Colorado Party which would have put him as the partyrepresentative for the nationalpresidential elections, had he won.
Criticism
Once linked to former dictator Alfredo Stroessner through his brother Humberto Domínguez Dibb, Osvaldo Domínguez Dibb insists that the Paraguayan general was indeed a great president. Osvaldo Domínguez Dibb has been accused by Brazilian authorities of being a major smuggler of cigarettes into Brazil.
He made most of his money in times of Ex Dictator Alfredo Stroessner. He is married to Peggy Wilson-Smith. Their son is Alejandro Dominguez, president of CONMEBOL, a vice-president of FIFA and a member of the FIFA Executive Committee.
