MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for December 16th 2017
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Saturday, December 16th 2017 - 17:19 UTC
Hondurans take to the streets to demand proclamation of opposition leader as president
Honduran protesters blocked roads and burned tires to press the authorities to cancel the election victory of incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernandez and to proclaim opposition leader Salvador Nasralla the winner.
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Saturday, December 16th 2017 - 17:18 UTC
Argentina sacks the head of the Navy, first disciplinary action since the loss of ARA San Juan
Argentina fired the head of its navy a month after a submarine disappeared in the South Atlantic with 44 crew members onboard, a government spokesman said on Saturday. Local paper La Nacion had reported earlier, citing anonymous sources, that Navy Admiral Marcelo Eduardo Hipolito Srur was let go by the defense minister.
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Saturday, December 16th 2017 - 16:53 UTC
Fallout from Odebrecht: Peruvian congress initiates proceedings to impeach president Kuczynski
Lawmakers in Peru initiated proceedings to impeach President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who refuses to resign after being accused of failing to disclose decade-old payments from a Brazilian company embroiled in Latin America’s biggest corruption scandal. In a brief session, 27 of 130 members of congress put forward a request to consider removing the former Wall Street banker for “permanent moral incapacity”. Lawmakers could summon Kuczynski to defend himself before congress as early as next week.
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Saturday, December 16th 2017 - 16:29 UTC
A disenchanted Chile will elect the least unpopular of two candidates on Sunday
Chile faces on Sunday one of the elections with most uncertain result. Longstanding disenchantment with the center left leaning coalition that has ruled Chile since the return of democracy in 1990, and a Latin American natural reaction which erupts every now and then when an economy stalls and the blame goes to the local elite in combination with outside “treachery capitalists”, seems to be the scenario.
