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Paraguay’s president quits after millions of people’s savings frozen in bank crisis

Santiago Peña’s rightwing administration had authorised Ueno Bank to drastically expand operations before collapse Paraguay’s rightwing president, Santiago Peña, resigned on Thursday after a political and financial crisis collapsed the South American country’s banking system in recent days. At the centre of the crisis is Ueno Bank, which in just a few years under Peña went from an obscure digital…

Paraguay’s president quits after millions of people’s savings frozen in bank crisis

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