During the Republican National Convention on the previous week, Donald Trump has been selected as a candidate for president from Republican Party, this week starting from the 25th of July the Democratic National Convention started in Philadelphia. Predictably, Hillary Clinton has been nominated and selected for a president from Democratic Party. And the Vice presidents’ picks has been made by both candidates. From the side of Republican Party Trump chose Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana , and just today Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has selected U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia as her running mate.
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Guatemala's Social Security Institute was rocked last year as a multi-million Corruptions scadal broke out. Alfonso Cabrera resigned seven months after being appointed to the post by President Jimmy Morales. The letter was signed on Tuesday and citing “personal reasons” as the reason for the resignation and it has been sent to the president on Wednesday.
Ted Cruz sensationally withheld an endorsement of Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention Wednesday, earning a chorus of boos from the floor before he was upstaged in a power play by the GOP nominee himself. "I congratulate Donald Trump on winning the nomination last night," Cruz said. "And like each of you, I want to see the principles that our party believes prevail in November." He was more focus to encourage people to "Stand and speak and vote your conscience.” , but not officially endorsed the nominee Donald J. Trump. Apparently crowd and delegates began to boo and some chanted "We want Trump!" The reaction from other delegates and nominees was absolutely negative; despite Gingrich trying to rephrase his words into Trump is the only one who upholds the Constitution.
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Guillaume Long, Ecuador’s foreign minister, will travel to the Vatican on Thursday to propose a global end to tax havens. He issued as statement saying that “We need an ethical economy, an economy that puts people first. Tax havens are the opposite of an ethical economy. These concentrate wealth in the hands of few and undermine development. We have therefore launched the Ethics Pact in Ecuador and we hope to advance a global debate on how we can eradicate this immoral practice”.
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Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca, in order to get into the Chilean border city of Arica that serves as a free “port” for Bolivia, he had to wait for more than six hours. The minister travelled to Bolivia on Monday to verify allegations of abuse and discrimination against Bolivian truckers. Chilean authorities said they have not been informed of the visit and therefore did not allow them free access. If this is the treatment given to Bolivian government representatives, then Bolivian truckers must be facing far worse, Choquehuanca said.
Read More Donald Trump has secured the Republican Party nomination for the US president during the National Convention in Cleveland. During last two days, the Trump’s nomination progressively moved also with the participation of his children with the New York delegation. Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Tramp were supporting him in his home state delegation. After Ted Cruz and John Kasich endorsement, Trump was the only one candidate from Republicans and without any doubt was nominated. New York gave him the winning margin in the state-by-state roll call vote.
Read More The Trump campaign descended into a familiar messiness after Melania Trump delivered a convention speech Monday echoing lines from Michelle Obama's 2008 convention address. After speaking at the convention on Monday, Melania Trump, the mogul's third wife, faced accusations that a portion of her speech plagiarized Michelle Obama. The spouse speech is a rare opportunity to paint a human portrait of the presidential candidate, to put what should be that person's top character witness in front of a national audience. This was a particularly important moment for Mrs. Trump because she has kept such a low profile over the course of the campaign so far. For Mrs. Trump, instead of claims about being fully engaged in husband’s ideas and campaign, that speech shows primitive thoughts of Trump’s team. And be focused on blaming competitor and “Making America safe again”.
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On Monday, Colombia's Constitutional Court approved the proposal to use a plebiscite to submit the peace accord between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the government. The conservative government of Juan Manuel Santos now has to call for a plebiscite within a month. The peace deal will be formally approved if a minimum 13 percent or 4 million people vote in favor of it out of a population of 33 million that is eligible to vote. Considerable criticism was drawn from Santos's decision to ask Colombians to respond to one question with a yes or no answer. Former president, now opposition Senator Alvaro Uribe argued that it does not allow voters to reject specific aspects of the peace agreement, which some FARC units also want to put on the table for discussion.
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Andrade was appointed in February 2015 to lead the government investigation known as “Casa Blanca”. He announced his resignation on Monday, hours before Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto signed new graft-fighting legislation. Virgilio Andrade said in a televised statement, “I decided to present today to the president of Mexico my resignation as secretary of the public functions secretariat, so that the federal executive can fully comply with the constitutional mandate to count on, within the National Anti-corruption System, a secretary of the public function secretariat appointed and ratified by the senate."
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On Wednesday, Brazil’s lower-house congress elected an ally of Interim President Michel Temer as its new speaker, who will help push highly disputed reforms. Maia is a trained economist who previously worked in banking before starting his political carrer as well as a representative from the right-wing Democrats party (DEM). He was elected with 285 votes in the 513-member Chamber of Deputies and announced he would help Temer pursue the reforms which aim to pull the economy out of the immense recession.
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