File photo: Pedro Alliana with Marco Rubio; file photo, not the swearing-in / Freddie Everett / U.S. Department of State / public domain; resized and letterboxed / Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Secretary_Rubio_Meets_with_Paraguayan_Vice_President_(55441608552).jpg
NEW Politics · 06:11
Paraguay’s Senate removed President Santiago Peña on 6 November over the Ueno Bank collapse; Vice President Pedro Alliana was sworn in, and prosecutors placed Peña under house arrest, according to AFP, AP and the Senate.
Source: AFP; AP; Senado Paraguay
Video still: Santiago Peña resignation address on X, 5 Nov 2026 (via @visegrad24 circulate) / Original: Santiago Peña
BREAKING Politics · 20:06
Paraguay’s President Santiago Peña announced his resignation on Thursday in a video posted on X, amid the collapse of digital lender ueno bank. Minutes later the Chamber of Deputies voted 78-0 to impeach him. Vice President Pedro Alliana is expected to succeed him; the Senate still has to act.
Source: AP; BBC News; ABC Color; El País; CNN Español; Santiago Peña (resignation video on X)
Photo: Cmasi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped and resized (file image: Banco Central del Paraguay building, Asunción, 2009) / Source: Wikimedia Commons
BREAKING Business · 08:28
Paraguay's central bank (BCP) has started a resolution procedure for ueno bank, one of the country's biggest lenders and its leading digital bank, after its solvency ratio fell below 50% of the legal minimum. The bank's app, cards and services were shut down. BCP president Carlos Carvallo resigned the same day, prosecutors detained eight executives, and protests over frozen savings have spread in Asunción.
Source: Banco Central del Paraguay (BCP); Ministerio Público del Paraguay; ABC Color; Última Hora; AP; AFP; EFE; BBC News Mundo