In the spotlight: impeachment proceedings in sight for the Peruvian president?
Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra calls for dialogue.
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In Peru, Congress will open debates this Friday on the motion presented by six parties.
The information is on the front page of all the Peruvian press, especially
El Comercio
.
MPs will have to decide whether or not to open impeachment proceedings against Martin Vizcarra, after audio recordings that appear to compromise the president in a corruption case are revealed.
The person concerned denounces a "
plot
" to bring him down.
A little over two years ago, impeachment proceedings were launched against the then president, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, again after the broadcast of audio recordings.
He had resigned.
Colombia
: second night of riots
Protests and riots continued into the night from Thursday to Friday in Colombia, to denounce the death of a man who had received repeated electric shocks while he was immobilized on the ground by two police officers.
New "
night of fear
" in some streets of Cali, headline
El Tiempo
.
"
For the second time, the incidents worsened with the advance of the night
", explains the newspaper.
A bank was set on fire, as were several small police stations.
A front page slide show of
El Espectador
shows that Bogota has also experienced scenes of looting and vandalism.
"
Public outrage is at its height," writes the newspaper.
In addition to [
the Javier Ordóñez case
], at least ten people died during these mobilisations
”, affected according to the newspaper,“
by objects clearly for the exclusive use of the police
”.
United States
: monster fires all over the West Coast
A good part of American newspapers display orange headlines this Friday.
Orange like the flames that ravage the state of Washington, California and Oregon, or like the smoke in which the Golden Gate is drowning in San Francisco.
The flames destroyed more than 4,000 homes in California, entire communities in Oregon, including areas with mobile homes.
There are plenty of them in Rogue Valley, the
Washington Post
explains
.
In these mobile homes live many Mexican families who settled here in the early 90s to work in the orchards in the area.
These families were already weakened by unemployment due to the pandemic.
The newspaper follows these victims in the rubble of their homes.
A few chickens survived, a child's bicycle is recovered.
The rest is ash and molten metal.
Postal voting continues to divide Americans
A new poll conducted by the
Washington Post
and the University of Maryland reveals that "
if Democrats are divided on the issue (...), 71% of Republicans say they prefer to vote in person
."
For the American newspaper, "
it seems that Donald Trump's frequent warnings on postal voting are persuading Republicans to avoid it
".
Another important point of this poll: 95% of Trump voters "
are confident that their ballots cast in person on election day will be counted accurately
."
Only 45% think this will be the case if they vote no correspondence.
Can this trend pose a problem for Republicans?
Yes, thinks the
Washington Post
.
Long queues to respect physical distancing and the change of address of polling stations due to the pandemic could "
make it more difficult for these voters to vote
."
Perhaps that won't be enough to deter these Republican voters, as most are determined, the paper said.
The other risk lies in the perception of results.
Here's the disaster scenario: “
If the results of the in-person vote are released on election night, and Republicans seem much more likely to vote that way, Donald Trump will be ahead.
But a few days or even a few weeks later, the mailed ballots will be taken into account and Trump's lead will shrink, he may even be overtaken by Biden
”.
"
All the characteristics of a constitutional crisis
", according to political scientists interviewed by the daily.
September 11, 2001
: a rare moment of national unity
Sad anniversary this Friday in Chile, which commemorates the coup d'etat of Augusto Pinochet and the death of President Salvador Allende.
The United States commemorates the 19th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
At the Ground Zero site in New York City, Democrat Joe Biden passed Mike Pence and patted him on the shoulder.
He shouldn't run into Donald Trump, even though the two candidates will be in the same city on the same day.
With less than three weeks to go before their first debate, the pair are both heading to Shanksville, Pa., Where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in 2001.
For the
Washington Post
, "
the attacks of September 11 targeted the cities that shaped the two candidates, Washington and New York, reinforcing the divergent worldviews they now offer to the American electorate
: Biden's accession to the American institutions and global alliances, against Trump's distrust of foreigners and his insistence that America must go it alone
”.
“
This rift occurs in the midst of another great national trauma, which Americans deal with in very different ways.
If September 11 caused a rare moment of national unity (...) the current pandemic gives rise to bitter partisan debates on all subjects, from the death rate to the question of knowing who is at fault
”.
Paraguay
: disappearance of a former vice-president
Oscar Denis disappeared Wednesday in a town near the border with Brazil.
The former vice-president of Paraguay may have been kidnapped by an EPP guerrilla cell, the Paraguayan People's Army.
Leaflets accompanied by a claim for removal were indeed found inside the pick-up that the former vice-president was driving and which was found open doors.
"The kidnapping of Denis (...) is the subject of a unanimous condemnation", headlines
Ultima Hora
.
The Paraguayan president asked for help from Brazil, the United States and Colombia.
The
ABC
newspaper
indicates that a presidential plane left for Bogota on Thursday to seek reinforcements.
Colombia is, according to this daily, "
the country which has provided the most aid to Paraguay in recent years, mainly to fight armed groups like the EPP
".
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