Caesar DePaço
Caesar DePaço | |
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| Honorary Consul of the Portuguese Republic in Florida | |
| In office 3 October 2014 – 14 May 2020 | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | César Manuel Cardoso Matos do Paço 21 September 1965 Madalena, Azores, Portugal |
| Occupation | CEO of Summit Nutritionals International |
César Manuel Cardoso Matos do Paço (born 21 September 1965), also known as Caesar DePaço, is a Portuguese businessman. He was an honorary consul for both Portugal and Cape Verde in the United States, in Palm Coast, Florida. DePaço is the chief executive officer of Summit Nutritionals International, a food industry company.
Following his tenure as the first – and only – Honorary Consul of Portugal to Florida, DePaço was appointed as Honorary Consul of Cape Verde to Florida. He subsequently left the position amidst revelations he had donated to the far-right anti-immigration Chega party and maintained close ties to the party. This coincided with the resignation of the Cape Verdean foreign minister, Luís Filipe Tavares.
In 2021, DePaço filed a lawsuit against Wikipedia and its editors, which the Wikimedia Foundation characterized as a strategic lawsuit against public participation. In 2025, the Supreme Court of Portugal ordered that Wikipedia remove certain content from the English and Portuguese Wikipedia articles and disclose the personal data of those who had written it. The Wikimedia Foundation complied with the order.