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Cecilia Cubas Gusinky (January 14, 1973 – December 24, 2004) was a Paraguayan businesswoman. She was the daughter of former Paraguayan president Raúl Cubas and senator Mirtha Gusinky who was found dead on February 16 2005, underneath an abandoned house near Asunción, nearly five months after she was Kidnapping. Cubas was the third kidnapping victim officially recognized in a decade in Paraguay.
Cubas' father, the former president, a wealthy businessman who governed for less than a year between 1998 and 1999, paid a ransom of US$800,000 for his daughter's release in November 2004 after negotiating with her captors through e-mail. The kidnappers had initially demanded $5 million. However, they later told her father that the payment was merely a fine and cut off all communication.
Cubas and his wife, along with then President Nicanor Duarte, accompanied police to the site where the body was found.
Among the information that was later released regarding the kidnapping of Cubas, was the fact that the kidnappers had received training and support from the terrorist group FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia); the support of this group came via the "foreign minister" of the FARC, Rodrigo Granda. Osmar Martínez from the PPL (Partido Patria Libre), who was arrested as the main suspect for this crime, was the link with Granda.
The investigation into the kidnapping was conducted with the help of the Colombian attorney general's office.
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