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The Chilean Chamber of Deputies approved this Tuesday to carry out a political trial to dismiss the country’s president, the conservative Sebastián Piñera, for alleged irregularities in the sale of a controversial mining project. After a marathon parliamentary session of almost 24 hours, the deputies decided by 78 votes in favor, 67 against and 3 […]
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Reforms, fuel hikes and Pandora give life to protests in Ecuador
The tax and fiscal reforms that the president intends to carry out Guillermo Lasso, the progressive increase in fuel prices and the appearance of the president’s name in the Pandora Papers are the gasoline of the protests called this Tuesday in Ecuador, which will reach their climax in the afternoon. The Ecuadorian capital woke up […]
Pandora papers: sale in Piñera mine tax haven “did not imply tax advantages”
The director of the Internal Revenue Service (SII) of Chile, Fernando Barraza, assured that the controversial sale in the British Virgin Islands of a mine by the family of the country’s president, Sebastian Piñera, “Did not imply tax advantages.” “We have no answer so far as to what is the motivation for this operation that, […]
Is Ecuador heading towards the unprecedented scene of a crossed death?
The Ecuadorian president, Guillermo Lasso, does not rule out resorting to the unprecedented “crossed death” to put an end to his tough bid with the National Assembly, in case the legislative blockade of his reforms persists and when a commission investigates his appearance in the Pandora papers. This was confirmed by the president in an […]
Sebastián Piñera, a skilled businessman surpassed by a turbulent Chile
The president of Chile, Sebastian PiñeraA skilled and millionaire businessman, he was at a crossroads in the final stretch of his second government, marked by a social outbreak, an economic and health crisis, and now engulfed in uncertainty by an impeachment process. At 71 years of age, Piñera, owner of an estimated net worth of […]
The Chilean Government on the impeachment of Piñera: “It has electoral purposes”
The government of Chile said that the constitutional accusation presented by the opposition to remove the country’s president, Sebastian Piñera, after its inclusion in the Pandora Papers, “Has no legal basis” and its objective is “purely electoral”. “We have not seen in the history of Chile a haste, a lack of seriousness when it comes […]
Opposition presents impeachment against President Piñera for the Pandora Papers
The opposition presented this Wednesday in the Chamber of Deputies the constitutional accusation (impeachment) against the president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, after the alleged irregularities in the sale of a mining megaproject revealed in the Pandora Papers (Pandora Papers). “The grounds for this constitutional accusation are twofold: one, because the president has openly infringed the […]