MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for April 6th 2016
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Wednesday, April 6th 2016 - 08:42 UTC
Brazil's governance crisis closer to a snap election as soon as October
A Supreme Court judge ordered Brazil's Congress on Tuesday to start impeachment proceedings against Vice President Michel Temer, deepening a political crisis and uncertainty over leadership of Latin America's largest country. Justice Marco Aurelio Mello told the lower house to convene an impeachment committee to consider putting Temer on trial on charges he helped manipulate budget accounting as part of President Dilma Rousseff's administration.
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Wednesday, April 6th 2016 - 08:19 UTC
Ex Transport Secretary involves Nestor and Cristina Kirchner in purchase of out of service trains
Discouraging week for the Kirchner family and followers, despite the fact that he name of their main political enemy, Mauricio Macri, has cropped up in the Panama Papers. Not only Lazaro Baez, the dominant public works contractor in Santa Cruz province, and believed to be a straw man for the Kirchner family has been arrested and faces questioning on a money laundering investigation, but also former Transport Secretary Ricardo Jaime implicated the Kirchner couple and a former minister in a multimillion purchase of damaged railway materials.
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Wednesday, April 6th 2016 - 08:03 UTC
Kirchnerite businessman arrested; faces charges of money laundering and fiscal fraud
An Argentine powerful public works contractor from the province of Santa Cruz and close associate of the Kirchner family, Lazaro Baez was arrested on Tuesday afternoon when he arrived in his private Lear Jet to a Buenos Aires airport. Considered one of the wealthiest men in the southern province, political turf of the Kirchner family, and with an 'unrivaled' talent for business, Baez is a main suspect of an investigation into alleged money laundering.
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Wednesday, April 6th 2016 - 07:57 UTC
Obama on Panama Papers: “a lot of it is legal, but that's exactly the problem”
United States President Obama hailed new Treasury Department rules cracking down on corporate tax inversions Tuesday, calling the practice of merging with a foreign company to escape U.S. taxes “one of the most insidious tax loopholes out there.”
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Wednesday, April 6th 2016 - 07:39 UTC
Labor leader Corbyn says UK should consider “direct rule” on overseas territories acting as tax havens
Pressure mounted on Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday to impose “direct rule” on British overseas territories after several of them figured as tax havens in the leaked Panama Papers that have caused ripples around the world.
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Wednesday, April 6th 2016 - 07:23 UTC
Panama Papers: Head of Chile's Transparency International has to step down
In another unexpected to come from this Panama Papers scandal, the head of the Chile office of the corruption watchdog group Transparency International has resigned after his name appeared in the data leak.
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Wednesday, April 6th 2016 - 07:12 UTC
Baroness Scotland becomes first woman Secretary General of the Commonwealth
Dominica-born Baroness Patricia Scotland began this week her job as Commonwealth Secretary-General, pledging to focus on several issues of concern to the Caribbean, including dealing with violence against women and the effects of climate change.
