Hundreds pay tribute in his hometown to a priest and activist murdered in southern Mexico
LARRAÍNZAR – SAN ANDRÉS LARRÁINZAR, MéMore than a thousand people paid tribute on Monday in his hometown to Father Marcelo Pérez, the Catholic priest, defender of indigenous people and peasants murdered the day before at the end of a mass in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Although he had been suffering threats for almost […]
Pope Francis expels two other members of the Catholic group Sodalicio in Peru
LIMA – Pope Francis announced on Monday the expulsion of two senior members of the Sodalitium of Christian Life in Peru, bringing the total number of those separated to 13, including ten people last month and the group’s lay founder in August. These measures were taken following a Vatican investigation that uncovered serious abuses of […]
Former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo is sentenced to 20 and a half years for corruption in the Odebrecht case
LIMA – A Peruvian court on Monday sentenced former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo to 20 years and six months in prison for collusion, a type of corruption, and money laundering for receiving money from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht in exchange for awarding the construction of a stretch of the highway that connected Brazil with […]
President of Panama meets with French counterpart in search of getting off the list of tax havens
PANAMA CITY – The president of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, met on Monday with the French president Emmanuel Macron, during an official visit to Paris, in which he sought support to remove the Central American country from the list of tax havens of the European Union. Since coming to power on July 1, the Panamanian […]