The Necochea Municipal Council decided to suspend the city’s mayor, Horacio Tellechea, and scheduled a new session on February 8th to discuss his possible removal from office.
Tension mounted during the session at the Legislature where three Buenos Aires City legislators requested the impeachment of the Mayor, Mauricio Macri, and the Special Investigatory Committee could not present its conclusions on the espionage case.
San Martín federal judge Juan Manuel Yalj ratified that railway union leader Rubén “Pollo” Sobrero remains a suspect in the case investigating the burning of several trains in the Sarmiento line and assured that he will decide whether he will be indicted or not in ten days.
A Kirchnerite senator warned today that judges who upheld an injunction request made by the media group Clarín on Thursday could be impeached.
Paraguay's opposition-controlled lower house of Congress voted today to start impeachment proceedings against leftist President Fernando Lugo following a land eviction in which 17 police and peasant farmers were killed last week.
Paraguay's Congress removed President Fernando Lugo from officeafter a lightning-quick impeachment that he said was tantamount to a coup but pledged to accept.
Ousted Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo addressed thousands of citizens outside the the presidential palace and assured there a "coup against democracy. I do not answer to mafia, nor to drug trafficking."