What's new: what future for the impeachment procedure?

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" Acquitted ". This is the word, in capital letters, which spreads in one of almost all the paper editions of the American press this Thursday, February 6, from the Washington Post to the Dallas Morning News , after the acquittal by the Senate of Donald Trump during a removal procedure. Only the Chicago Sun Times is trying a " Teflon Don " in one. Teflon is this molecule used in the coating of non-stick pans. We could therefore translate this title by " The man who resists all affairs ". “ Teflon Don ” was also the nickname given to a famous sponsor of the New York mafia…

No triumphant title in the very conservative press, like the Washington Times , which wonders rather about the future of this impeachment procedure . It " has now failed for the second time in two decades, leaving constitutionalists and members of Congress to wonder whether the political death penalty intended by the founding fathers for presidents is definitively neutralized ".

Who can still limit the powers of the president ?

The Nation believes that the elected members of the Senate " gave the president almost unlimited powers " while " revealing the extent of their venality ". " Presidents were already considered immune to criminal prosecution ," adds the Boston Globe . Now they don't have to fear Congress either . ” " The only remaining control is that of the ballot ", a control " that the president is free to manipulate by calling on foreign countries since the Senate has so decided ." " If there is one positive point in this verdict , qualifies the editorial writer, it is the courage of Senator Mitt Romney ".

Mitt Romney is the only Republican to vote "guilty" for the abuse of office charge. He " knew the storm was going to fall, " wrote the Washington Post . " The duration of the storm will depend on Donald Trump ." The president is due to speak this Thursday at noon local time. According to the newspaper, " Party and campaign officials privately declare that they hope Trump is not obsessed with this one defection and (...) that he will only rejoice in his acquittal instead of engaging in a multi-day quarrel with Romney ” .

Trump Tower Party

Meanwhile the Trump team celebrated the acquittal Wednesday night at Trump Tower. The New York Times describes " a hive brimming with Keep America Great hats , well-cooked steaks and bottles of red wine ." A party attended by the first circle of Trump and his usual supporters. And then, " leaning against a wall ", the British brexiter Nigel Farage, " whose perpetual presence at the hotel , writes the New York Times , suggests that he must point here , as at the factory " . The Trump Tower, a hotel to which " the National Republican Committee has paid more than $ 440,000 since the election of Donald Trump, " the newspaper said, " or about 24,400 glasses of white wine from the house ."

Argentina : debt tour

Direction Argentina, now. Parliament adopted a law Wednesday (February 5th) which grants wide powers to the government to restructure the country's debt (the largest in Latin America). The Argentine president concluded a European tour on Wednesday in Paris, which clearly aimed to seek support for a renegotiation of this debt with the IMF. Emmanuel Macron has promised that France will stand " alongside " Argentina in these negotiations, explains Clarin . The pope also spoke in favor of this renegotiation during his meeting with the head of the IMF, it is the one of the paper edition of La Nacion .

Pagina12 is delighted with the tone of the meeting between Alberto Fernandez and Emmanuel Macron. “ Despite the current difficulties, Argentina seems to be moving from thorny status under foot to that of young shoot. At the end of President Fernandez's tour of Europe, Paris appears as " an unexpected new friend" , whose agenda is not far from the one that Argentina could have presented ". The newspaper devoted, in passing, a paper to gifts exchanged by the two presidents. Emmanuel Macron offered Alberto Fernandez a guitar. The latter offered his counterpart the complete works of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges… in French.

Colombia : death of the hitman of Pablo Escobar

In Colombia, the press announces the death, at 54, of "Popeye". This is the name by which the former boss of the drug killer Pablo Escobar was known. He had been hospitalized since the end of 2019 for stomach cancer. He is " one of the criminals who spent the most years in prison ", recalls El Espectador , condemned to " 23 years for the crimes he committed in the service of the Medellin cartel ". He was found guilty of " more than 300 homicides ordered by Pablo Escobar ". Popeye had been granted parole in 2014 before being detained again, for a little over a year, accused of extortion.

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