{"id":"1794248633389-news-segment","slug":"paraguay-raids-ex-president-after-bank-collapse","title":"Paraguay Raids Ex-President After Bank Collapse","summary":"Human Online's Nov. 9 report matches the headline: US-Iran tensions remain high, Israel has continued strikes in south Lebanon, and Gaza's humanitarian crisis is deepening. Additional regional reporting corroborates ongoing Israel-Lebanon hostilities and US warnings.","publishedAt":"2026-11-09T18:23:53.389Z","channel":{"id":"news","name":"Oncast News","language":"en"},"show":"The World","verification":{"status":"verified","leadVerdict":"TRUE","notes":"TRUE: Human Online's Nov. 9 report matches the headline: US-Iran tensions remain high, Israel has continued strikes in south Lebanon, and Gaza's humanitarian crisis is deepening. Additional regional reporting corroborates ongoing Israel-Lebanon hostilities and US warnings.\nSource: [humanonline.org](https://humanonline.org/news/middle-east-today-us-warns-of-iran-threats-as-israel-prepares-lebanon-offensive-gaza-crisis-deepens); [today.lori (https://x.com/HumanOnlineNews/status/2119043455674630525)","claims":[{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"Human Online's Nov. 9 report matches the headline: US-Iran tensions remain high, Israel has continued strikes in south Lebanon, and Gaza's humanitarian crisis is deepening. Additional regional reporting corroborates ongoing Israel-Lebanon hostilities and US warnings.","sourceName":"[humanonline.org](https://humanonline.org/news/middle-east-today-us-warns-of-iran-threats-as-israel-prepares-lebanon-offensive-gaza-crisis-deepens); [today.lori","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/HumanOnlineNews/status/2119043455674630525","claim":"Middle East Today | US Warns Of Iran Threats As Israel Prepares Lebanon Offensive & Gaza Crisis Deepens #MiddleEast #Gaza #Iran #Lebanon #HumanOnline https://t.co/XQ2btDCi8x","author":"Human Online (@HumanOnlineNews)"}]},"sources":[{"url":"https://x.com/HumanOnlineNews/status/2119043455674630525","name":"[humanonline.org](https://humanonline.org/news/middle-east-today-us-warns-of-iran-threats-as-israel-prepares-lebanon-offensive-gaza-crisis-deepens); [today.lori","kind":"x","verdict":"TRUE","author":"Human Online (@HumanOnlineNews)"}],"url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1794248633389-news-segment-paraguay-raids-ex-president-after-bank-collapse","listenUrl":"https://oncast.fm/c/news","attribution":{"publisher":"Oncast","site":"https://oncast.fm","url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1794248633389-news-segment-paraguay-raids-ex-president-after-bank-collapse","cite":"Cite https://oncast.fm/story/1794248633389-news-segment-paraguay-raids-ex-president-after-bank-collapse and the original source links. Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Bella","text":"Forget the Middle East for a second — Paraguay is on fire."},{"host":"Brian","text":"On fire how?"},{"host":"Bella","text":"Al Jazeera English posted on Telegram that prosecutors just raided former President Santiago Peña's home."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Raided why?"},{"host":"Bella","text":"Their report says Ueno Bank collapsed and hit roughly half the country."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Half the country? That's not a bank failure, that's a national wound."},{"host":"Bella","text":"And the report says Peña faces financial-crime charges tied to that collapse."},{"host":"Brian","text":"If half the country lost access to savings, someone at the top should answer for it."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Charges are not convictions. And the timing matters — he's already out of office."},{"host":"Brian","text":"That's when prosecutions usually start. You don't get immunity because you left power."},{"host":"Bella","text":"No, but you're asking me to trust a system that let this bank get that big."},{"host":"Brian","text":"So what's the alternative? Half the country loses money and nobody's accountable?"},{"host":"Bella","text":"I want accountability. I also want to know where Paraguay's central bank and regulators were."},{"host":"Brian","text":"That's exactly my point — someone senior has to own it."},{"host":"Bella","text":"But raiding a home and leaking a headline isn't a trial."},{"host":"Brian","text":"The harm is real. A former leader in handcuffs sends a message."},{"host":"Bella","text":"It sends a message, all right. It says elites scapegoat each other while depositors stand in line."},{"host":"Brian","text":"So no one gets charged because the system was broken before him?"},{"host":"Bella","text":"I didn't say no one. I want evidence strong enough to survive a real court."},{"host":"Brian","text":"A prosecutor thought there was enough to charge him. That is evidence."},{"host":"Bella","text":"A charge is a claim. Half the country's anger, that's real."},{"host":"Brian","text":"That anger has to land somewhere. If not him, then who?"},{"host":"Bella","text":"Maybe the regulators who let Ueno become too big to fail. We'll see."},{"host":"Brian","text":"And a quick correction on something spreading from a Deimos News post on X."},{"host":"Bella","text":"What's it claiming?"},{"host":"Brian","text":"That late-February joint U.S.-Israeli strikes killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei."},{"host":"Bella","text":"That's not even the right name. The current Supreme Leader is Mojtaba Khamenei."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Ali was the previous one. And the claimed killing? No confirmation anywhere."},{"host":"Bella","text":"So why is this spreading?"},{"host":"Brian","text":"Because it fits a story people want to believe — that the war already took out the top."},{"host":"Bella","text":"That's dangerous. If the name is wrong, what else is wrong?"},{"host":"Brian","text":"Probably most of it. But the core U.S.-Iran tension is real."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Agreed on the tension. The shortcut to 'we killed the leader' is the part I won't accept."},{"host":"Brian","text":"You sure? Some posts get the name wrong and the event right."},{"host":"Bella","text":"No confirmation. It's not reportable as fact."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Fair. But the fact that this is spreading shows how fast misinformation fills a gap."},{"host":"Bella","text":"And people run with it because they want a clean ending. Wars don't give clean endings."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Over in Asia, there's a weird one from Lavanya on X."},{"host":"Brian","text":"How weird?"},{"host":"Bella","text":"She claims around 150 Chinese vloggers were caught in Dhaka broadcasting as if they were in New Delhi."},{"host":"Brian","text":"They faked their location? Why?"},{"host":"Bella","text":"No official confirmation yet, but the idea is they wanted the audience without the visa."},{"host":"Brian","text":"The internet was built on that. People see a skyline and never ask which one."},{"host":"Bella","text":"If true, it's a whole content industry built on location laundering."},{"host":"Brian","text":"And it tells you how much a city's name still matters in the algorithm."},{"host":"Bella","text":"The scary part is how easy it is to make any street look like any capital."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Nothing new. But the scale, that many people, that's a small studio system."}]}