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Who is Pedro Alliana, the new president of Paraguay? What action will you take in the face of the crisis by Ueno Bank?

The Paraguayans were born on Saturday November 7 with a new head of state. This is Pedro Alliana, who took office, after the right-wing journalist Santiago Peña was dismissed by the Senate in a political trial - and subsequently put under house arrest - for his alleged involvement in the collapse of Ueno Bank. The bank crisis initially left about three million people, half the country's population, without access to their money.

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Half a century of State Secretaries: the power behind power

The next year is the 50th anniversary of the creation of the figure of the Secretary of State. A powerful institution unpublished in the Spanish administration, arising from the gossip of Adolfo Suárez and which all governments have maintained. Today they are true deputy ministers, a technical-political hinge whose function is to make electoral programmes a reality. Few know them. They don't decide, they run. One in ten comes to minister

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Direct Latin and the controversial "law of rescue" of the Colombian Government of De la Espriella

The Government of Abelardo de la Espriella submitted to the Congress of Colombia an extensive tax adjustment bill, which it states will cut public expenditure by 15 per cent and increase revenue through tax measures. The initiative aims to change various taxes to increase the State's income. Critical voices urge that the plan be revalued. In Direct Latam, we extended the information with our journalist, Éel María Angulo, who also told us about the law of submission.

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