Víctor Báez

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Víctor Báez Mosqueira (born 29 May 1956 in Asunción) is a Paraguayan trade union leader. He helped found the Trade Union of Bank Employees in the 1970s and was its general secretary from 1977 to 1986. In 1983 he was elected auditor of the ICFTU Inter American Regional Organisation of Workers (ORIT), and in 1985 he became general secretary of the Paraguayan Inter-Union Movement (MIT). After Paraguay’s democratisation, MIT became the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT), and Báez led it as president from 1989 to 1993. He also helped create the Southern Cone Trade Union Coordinating Body. Báez was elected to Paraguay’s Constitutional Assembly in 1991, and within ORIT he served as Secretary of Economic and Social Policies before becoming general secretary. When ORIT merged in 2008 into the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas, he continued as general secretary. In 2018 he became Deputy General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).