PoliticsOusted Paraguayan president placed under house arrest after bank crisis

Paraguayan authorities placed ousted President Santiago Peña under house arrest on Friday. The Senate had removed him over a banking crisis that left nearly half the country's people unable to access their savings. Peña offered to resign, but lawmakers continued impeachment proceedings and stripped him of political immunity.

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