Óscar Nicanor Duarte Frutos is a Paraguayan politician who served as President of Paraguay from 2003 to 2008. In 2013,President Horacio Cartes appointed Duarte as Ambassador to Argentina,a diplomatic posting he held from 2013 until 2016. Duarte currently holds the title of Senator for life.
The National Congress is the legislative branch of the government of Honduras.
The Republic of Peru has two vice presidents,the First Vice President and the Second Vice President,who are elected along with the President in democratic elections. Their only constitutional mission is to replace the President in case of death,permanent or temporary incapacity,resignation,being abroad without the permission of Congress,failure to return from abroad at fixed time,and/or dismissal or removal from office as allowed by the Constitution. They cannot be appointed outside of general elections.
Francisco Arcidio Oviedo Brítez is a Paraguayan politician from the Colorado Party. He served as 27th Vice President of Paraguay from 21 November 2007 to 15 August 2008.
Mercedes Rosalba Aráoz Fernández is a Peruvian economist,professor,and politician who served as Second Vice President of Peru from 2016 to 2020. At the beginning of her political career,she served as Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism from 2006 to July 2009,after which she was appointed briefly as Minister of Production,and finally as Minister of Economy and Finance,all portfolios under the second presidency of Alan García.
The president of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile is the highest authority of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile. The office was established in 1811 by the First National Congress of Chile.
Asturias Forum,previously known as Forum of Citizens is a regionalist political party in the Principality of Asturias.
Fernando Lugo,elected President of Paraguay in 2008,was impeached and removed from office by the Congress of Paraguay in June 2012. On 21 June the Chamber of Deputies voted 76 to 1 to impeach Lugo,and the Senate removed him from office the following day,by 39 votes to 4,resulting in Vice President Federico Franco,who had broken with Lugo,becoming President. Lugo contends he was denied due process because he did not have enough time to prepare a defense. A number of Latin American governments declared the proceeding was effectively a coup d'état. Lugo himself formally accepted the impeachment,but called it a "parliamentary coup".
Todos is a political party in Guatemala.
Peruvians for Change was a centre-right party in Peru.
Martín Alberto Vizcarra Cornejo is a Peruvian engineer and politician who served as President of Peru from 2018 to 2020. Vizcarra previously served as Governor of the Department of Moquegua (2011–2014),First Vice President of Peru (2016–2018),Minister of Transport and Communications of Peru (2016–2017),and Ambassador of Peru to Canada (2017–2018),with the latter three during the presidency of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
Mario Abdo Benítez is a Paraguayan politician who served as the 51st president of Paraguay from 2018 to 2023. He was previously a senator and served as president of the Senate of Paraguay from 2015 to 2016.
Hugo Adalberto Velázquez Moreno is a Paraguayan politician. He is a former Deputy of the Congress of Paraguay,and he served the President of the Chamber of Deputies from 2014 to 2017. Velázquez was elected Vice President in the 2018 general elections.
Alicia Beatriz Pucheta de Correa is a Paraguayan lawyer and politician who served as Vice President of Paraguay for three months in 2018. Pucheta is the first woman to occupy the Vice Presidency of Paraguay.
Since 2016,Peru has been plagued with political instability and a growing crisis,initially between the President,Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Congress,led de facto by Keiko Fujimori. The crisis emerged in late 2016 and early 2017 as the polarization of Peruvian politics increased,as well as a growing schism between the executive and legislative branches of government. Fujimori and her Fujimorist supporters would use their control of Congress to obstruct the executive branch of successive governments,resulting with a period of political instability in Peru.
The 2019–2020 Peruvian constitutional crisis began when President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Congress of Peru on 30 September 2019 considering a de facto denial of the vote of confidence. The majority of lawmakers,opponents and Fujimorists viewed Vizcarra's actions as a "coup" or "self-coup" while some compared the event to the 1992 Peruvian self-coup. Congress responded by declaring Vizcarra's presidency suspended and appointed Vice President Mercedes Aráoz as interim president. During the evening hours,the heads of the Peruvian Armed Forces shared a photograph beside Vizcarra in the Government Palace amidst the crisis,putting forward their support for him.
The 14th Congress of Deputies was a meeting of the Congress of Deputies,the lower house of the Spanish Cortes Generales,with the membership determined by the results of the general election held on 10 November 2019. The congress met for the first time on 3 December 2019,and was dissolved on 30 May 2023.
Manuel Arturo Merino de Lama is a Peruvian politician who briefly served as President of Peru for six days between 10 and 15 November 2020. He also served as the President of Congress from 16 March 2020 to 15 November 2020. He was a Member of Congress (AP) representing the Tumbes constituency for the 2001–2006,2011–2016,and 2020–2021 terms.
The impeachment process against Martín Vizcarra began in the Congress of Peru on 11 September 2020 when Congress initiated proceedings against Vizcarra on grounds of "moral incapacity",accusing him of influence peddling after audio recordings were released by an opposition legislator alleging that Vizcarra's political decisions were swayed by an obscure singer.
The 2020 Peruvian protests were a series of demonstrations sparked after the removal of President Martín Vizcarra that took place from 9 November to 17 November 2020.
