Mabel Causarano

• Name — Mabel Causarano • Born — 1943 • Birthplace — Asunción, Paraguay • Occupation — Architect, professor • Education — Sapienza University of Rome • Office — Minister of Culture of Paraguay • Term Start — 15 August 2013 • Term End — 8 September 2016 • President — Horacio Cartes

Mabel Causarano earned a PhD in architecture and urban planning from the Sapienza University of Rome. After living in Rome for nine years, she moved to Milan for ten years, before returning to Paraguay in the late 1970s. She has been a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the Universidad Católica "Nuestra Señora de la Asunción" (UCA) since 1981. She is a member of the Paraguayan Academy of History and the Scientific Society of Paraguay, a corresponding member of the Real Academia de la Historia of Spain, and is on the Board of Historical Studies of La Recoleta of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the 1990s, she directed the REMA Corporation for Sustainable Development in Asunción. On 15 August 2013, Causarano was appointed National Minister of Culture by President Horacio Cartes. She was dismissed from office on 8 September 2016. The reason given was a lack of progress on civic improvement projects, though some media outlets speculated that political concerns or her move to finance the documentary Paraguay droga y banana had influenced the decision.