by El Reportero cable services
GUATEMALA CITY, August 11 – The Central American Parliament (Parlacen) today confirmed Werner Isaac Vargas as Secretary General of SICA for the period 2022-2026.
Of Nicaraguan nationality, Vargas will hold the position in alternating order, according to a statement from the Central American Integration System (SICA).
In their social networks, they also published the gratitude of the Parlacen president, Guillermo Daniel Ortega Reyes, to the Board of Directors and the Honorable Plenary for the election of a figure with extensive experience and an outstanding role as an official in the Community Bodies.
“They trust that, during their administration, the Framework Laws approved by the regional Parliament on Tourism Biosecurity, Equal Access to Digital Services, Transportation and Migration and Mental Health will be promoted, for the benefit of citizens,” indicates the text dated this Thursday in the Guatemala City.
Likewise, it highlights that with its work dynamics, SICA will obtain a decisive boost, as well as the institutionality of the Community Bodies that, like the Parlacen, require the approval of the Reforms of its Constitutive Treaty to grant it binding powers.
Its importance becomes more important in the face of the new economic challenges in the region, affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change, the note underlines.
From Managua, Vice President Rosario Murillo expressed her satisfaction with the support for the candidate of the Sandinista government by all the Central American presidents.
“Nicaragua’s right to be in the general secretariat of SICA. We are pleased, it fills us with pride to be able to represent paths of unity,” said Murillo.
Castillo calls for popular support and the Prosecutor’s Office opens a new investigation
LIMA, Peru August 11 – The Peruvian president, Pedro Castillo, turned his gaze towards the popular sectors in the face of the serious crisis he is facing, aggravated today when the Prosecutor’s Office formalized a fifth investigation of the president for alleged corruption. Castillo called for social mobilization against political and media pressure to resign, in meetings with hundreds of leaders of the Rondas Campesinas -agrarian and indigenous citizen security formations- and neighborhood organizations from the popular neighborhoods of Lima that gave him their support. . Press media and opposition politicians accused the government of inciting violence to avoid investigations, and conservative congresswoman Gladys Echaíz insinuated that Castillo’s call could qualify as incitement to terrorism.
Waldemar Cerrón, an ally of the executive, proposed in today’s plenary session that the investigations be allowed to continue until their conclusion and that Congress dedicate itself to its specific work.
In his meetings with social leaders, Castillo reiterated his complaint of a conspiracy against him, from Parliament and the Press and to the National Prosecutor’s Office, whose head, Patricia Benavides, denied it and stated that he only fulfills his duty “whoever falls”.
Benavides today formalized the fifth investigation for alleged corruption in the Ministry of Housing by a “criminal organization.”
According to the fiscal hypothesis, similar to those of the other investigations, Castillo would be at the top of the alleged criminal group, supported by the former head of that portfolio and recently appointed Minister of Transport and Communications, Geiner Alvarado, and by relatives of Castillo, such as his sister-in-law, Yenifer Paredes.
The young woman, putative daughter of Castillo and her wife, Lilia Paredes, surrendered yesterday to the Prosecutor’s Office, which the day before had raided the presidential residence to arrest her, which caused Castillo’s message in which he denounced the alleged conspiracy.
Paredes presented herself to the Public Ministry when a concentration of Rondas Campesinas raised her demands before the Public Ministry and applauded her when she entered her headquarters.
