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Juan Carlos
Navarro founded the National Association for the Conservation of Nature (ANCON) in 1985. Navarro served as the first Environmental Ambassador of his country, appointed by the president of Panama to advise key officials, in both the public and private sectors, on national and international
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He quickly established himself as a national party leader and in August 2002 was elected to the nine-member
National Executive Committee, the PRD's top governing organism. In 2008 he was re-elected into the National Executive Committee as the most voted member. In September 2008, he participated in
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by a wide margin. This led Juan Carlos
Navarro to call for all the National Executive Committee members to resign based on the poor election results. In October 2009, Juan Carlos Navarro resigned his post as First Under Secretary in the National Executive Committee and shortly thereafter all other
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In 2012, Juan Carlos
Navarro was elected Secretary-General of the PRD, the top post in the party's structure. The political movement he led won all 10 posts of the National Executive Committee; it was the first time in history that all 10 posts were held by the same party. In March 2013 he
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On July 10, 2018, Navarro once again registered to participate in the PRD primaries, which were to be held on
September 16 of the same year. He aspired to be chosen as his party's presidential candidate for the general elections to be held on May 5, 2019.
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Conservancy's Center for Compatible Economic Development, with the support of the MacArthur Foundation, Navarro was the first conservation leader from the Caribbean, Latin America and the Pacific rim to be so honored. In 1998 he authored the book
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Even though
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