第3203期:Paraguayan President resigns over scandal
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Paraguay's Congress has decided to move ahead withimpeachmentproceedings against President Santiago Pena hours after he attempted to resign over a banking scandal. 巴拉圭国会决定继续推进针对总统圣地亚哥·佩尼亚的弹劾程序,就在数小时前,佩尼亚因一桩银行丑闻试图辞职。 A hearing's been scheduled for Friday. 听证会已安排在周五举行。 Mr. Pena has links with Ueno Bank, whose collapse has left nearly half of Paraguay's population without access to their savings. 佩尼亚与上野银行存在关联,这家银行倒闭后,近半数巴拉圭民众无法取出自己的存款。 Luis Ficardo is the Latin America expert from BBC Monitoring. 路易斯·菲卡多是BBC监测部的拉美事务专家。 A lot of Paraguayans are blaming Mr. Pena for this crisis. 许多巴拉圭民众将这场危机归咎于佩尼亚。 He has denied any wrongdoing. 他否认存在任何不当行为。 However, he was a shareholder of this bank up to last year after 2025. 不过,直到2025年之后的去年,他一直是这家银行的股东。 He was a shareholder in the company that owned the bank, and a lot of Paraguayans are criticizing the attitude of the government during the run up to this crisis. 他是该银行母公司的股东,许多巴拉圭民众批评政府在危机爆发前的处置态度。 They said that there was inadequate regulation. 他们称监管存在缺失。 There were not enough measures taken by the government to prevent this, and because of that they started animpeachmentprocess against Pena. 政府没有采取充足措施防范该事件,正因如此,国会启动了针对佩尼亚的弹劾流程。 The governor of California is moving to commute all death sentences in the state to life in prison without parole. 加利福尼亚州州长计划将本州所有死刑判决减为不得假释的终身监禁。 California has more death row inmates than any other state, but has not executed anyone for 2 decades. 加州的死囚数量居全美各州之首,但该州已经二十年没有执行过死刑。 The mass commutation means all California's 548 death row inmates will instead serve life sentences without the possibility of parole, the largest such move in American history. 这次大规模减刑意味着加州全部548名死囚将改...