Stories for December 18th 2017

Monday, December 18th 2017 - 06:41 UTC
Kuczynski appeals to an Odebrecht letter which says he was not in the “pay list”

Brazilian builder Odebrecht said on Saturday that its recently-disclosed business ties to embattled Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski were not part of the corrupt deals it struck with politicians that it has acknowledged to prosecutors.
Monday, December 18th 2017 - 05:55 UTC
Piñera is Chile's next president: he beat the center left candidate by ten points

Billionaire former President Sebastian Piñera easily won Chile's presidential runoff election on Sunday, moving the world's top-copper producing country back to the right. Piñera got 54.6% of the votes to 45.4% for center-left Senator Alejandro Guillier, with nearly all the ballots counted.
Monday, December 18th 2017 - 05:27 UTC
Hernandez declared Honduras president; opposition leader off to Washington to denounce “fraud”

Honduras’ electoral tribunal on Sunday declared conservative President Juan Orlando Hernandez the official winner of the Nov. 26 presidential election, sparking fraud accusations and calls for renewed street protests after a bitterly disputed contest. Hernandez beat center-left challenger and TV star Salvador Nasralla by 1.53 percentage points, according to the official count.

Kuczynski appeals to an Odebrecht letter which says he was not in the “pay list”