Paraguay’s Peña loses top aides as impeachment trial resumes over failed bank
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Top aides to Paraguayan president Santiago Peña have resigned as the Senate resumed an impeachment trial Friday that could remove him from office.
ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay — Top aides to Paraguayan president Santiago Peña have resigned as the Senate resumed an impeachment trial Friday that could remove him from office, deepening a political crisis triggered by the collapse of a bank tied to his government.
Senators rejected Peña’s request for 72 more hours to respond to accusations stemming from the failure of Ueno Bank, a digital lender that counted nearly half of Paraguay’s population as customers. Its collapse this week froze the savings of millions of Paraguayans and upended a country long seen by investors as one of South America’s most stable.
Interior Minister Enrique Riera resigned late Thursday, followed Friday by Peña’s chief of staff, Javier Giménez, and his legal adviser, Roberto Moreno, who quit just as the president prepared to defend himself before the Senate.
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