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Paraguayan Deputies Approved Political Trial Against Peña · Global Voices

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The Chamber of Deputies of Paraguay unanimously approved the beginning of a political trial against the now former president Santiago Peña, who is accused of multiple crimes related to the scandalous intervention of Ueno Bank. This caused the freezing of the deposits of 2.9 million savers, which caused social and financial chaos in the country. The extraordinary and urgent session called by the parliamentarians, evidence that Peña was left alone…
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ASUNCTION.— A severe institutional crisis shakes the Government of Paraguay after the National Congress rejected the resignation presented by President Santiago Peña and approved him for a political trial. The process was unleashed in the midst of growing questions and pressures resulting from the financial scandal linked to Ueno Bank. Political tension initially escalated when Santiago Peña attempted to withdraw from office through a message of…

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An intense and dramatic Tyroneo by marking these grave hours in Paraguay after the resignation of President Santiago Peña in the midst of the economic and social crisis that triggered the fall of Ueno Bank, an entity linked in an opaque way with...

The Paraguayan senator of the Liberal Party questioned the political responsibility of President Santiago Peña in the Ueno Bank scandal and demanded that he be submitted to political trial. He assured that the case responds to a plot of corruption and poor performance of functions, although he ruled out a widespread crisis of the Paraguayan financial system. [...] The entry Paraguay: “Peña has to go, but not through the big door resigning, but b…

The ruling Colorado Party of Paraguay backed this Thursday, shortly before the installation of an extraordinary session in the Chamber of Deputies, a political trial against the president of the country, Santiago Peña, following the intervention of the private Ueno bank. Thus announced, in a statement released in X, the president of that [...]

The former president of Paraguay and head of the National Republican Association (ANR), Horacio Cartes, announced on Wednesday that the Colorado Party will accompany the political trial against President Santiago Peña. The decision comes in the midst of the crisis unleashed by the intervention and the closure of the Ueno Bank, which left almost three million [...]

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El Independiente broke the news on Thursday, November 5, 2026.
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