When Soledad Núñez became housing minister of Paraguay in October 2014, she knew she was taking on one of the most corrupt and ineffective public institutions in the country. Determined to make meaningful changes, she set about reforming the ministry and even dismissed the senior official at the centre of the corruption. But, one year later, he had returned with a court order reinstating him. With her fragile new culture on the line, how should Núñez respond?