University occupation expands amid corruption probe

A student protest in Paraguay that has forced a university president suspected of corruption to step down, entered its second week last Tuesday, with students guarding the campus around the clock, allegedly to prevent evidence tampering, writes Joseph Bamat for France24.

Faculty and students of the National University of Asunción, or UNA, were to hold a meeting widely expected to approve the resignation of Froilan Peralta, who quit his job as UNA’s president and turned himself in to authorities on charges he dispensed professor salaries to members of his secretaries’ families.

UNA’s Vice-president Andrés Amarilla and two department heads have also stepped down in the wake of a scandal that has engulfed one of the oldest and most prestigious academic institutions in Paraguay. Students also called for the resignation of Philosophy Department Dean Maria Angelica Gonzalez after they allegedly discovered that documents in the philosophy building had been intentionally destroyed, newspaper Cronica reported.
Full report on the France24 site