Franco was born in Asunción and turned pro in 1974. He won the South American Tour Order of Merit in 1991. In 2007, he was second at the Carlos Franco Invitational, and won the same tournament in 2012 in a playoff against younger brother Ramon.
The former sports minister under the right-wing dictator Francisco Franco also had to face significant political crises, such as the boycott by most of the Eastern Bloc at the 1984 Los AngelesGames in retaliation for the Moscow boycott.
Paintings by Antoine Watteau, the French master, have gone on display in France two months after being saved from fires in Los Angeles. The works, owned by Lionel Sauvage, a Franco-American financier ...
