LATAM POLITICS TODAY-Ecuador opposition confident about removing President Lasso

* Brazil Congress prepares for inquiry into Jan. 8 * Lula: Open to all dialogue once Russia, Ukraine talk peace * Paraguay presidential hopeful composed amid political storm * Unable to process Venezuela's oil, Cuba turns to Russia, Mexico (.) April 26 (Reuters) - The latest in Latin American politics today: 'More than enough' evidence to remove Ecuador's President Lasso -opposition QUITO - There is more than enough evidence that corruption at a public company was allowed by Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso, justifying his removal from office, an opposition lawmaker testified to congress.

* Brazil Congress prepares for inquiry into Jan. 8

* Lula: Open to all dialogue once Russia, Ukraine talk peace

* Paraguay presidential hopeful composed amid political storm

* Unable to process Venezuela's oil, Cuba turns to Russia, Mexico

(.) April 26 (Reuters) -

The latest in Latin American politics today: 'More than enough' evidence to remove Ecuador's President Lasso -opposition

QUITO - There is more than enough evidence that corruption at a public company was allowed by Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso, justifying his removal from office, an opposition lawmaker testified

to congress. Lasso did "nothing" when warned about irregularities in an oil shipping contract between public company Flopec and a private sector business, lawmaker Viviana Veloz testified to the congressional oversight committee tasked with recommending whether or not Lasso should be removed.

Lasso, a conservative former banker, has denied wrongdoing, pointing out the contract was signed in 2018, three years before he took office, and that his administration negotiated profitable changes to it. Brazil Congress prepares for inquiry into Jan. 8 capital storming

BRASILIA - Brazil's Congress is preparing to open an inquiry

into the Jan. 8 storming of key government buildings in the capital by violent demonstrators who denied the electoral victory of the recently inaugurated President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Lula and his allies in parliament have tried to avoid the congressional inquiry, hoping to leave investigations to law enforcement and to focus on his legislative agenda. The right-wing opposition has pushed for an inquiry as a way to blame his new government for security failures in Brasilia that day.

Brazil's Lula: 'Anything could be discussed' once Russia, Ukraine sit down to talk peace MADRID - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday called again for a "peace group" to broker an agreement between Russia and Ukraine, saying anything could be discussed once the nations sat down to talk peace.

"There are a lot of things to be discussed - Crimea, other territories, NATO," Lula said during a trip to Spain when asked about Crimea. He said it was not up to him to say who owned Crimea. "That is a discussion between Russia and Ukraine." Paraguay presidential hopeful Santiago Pena seeks to be calm amid political storm

ASUNCION - Paraguay's conservative ruling party presidential candidate Santiago Pena will need all the composure he has from a journey as a teenage father to the International Monetary Fund as he faces down an opposition challenge at the ballot box on Sunday. The 44-year-old former finance minister is trying to navigate a political maelstrom, with corruption allegations engulfing his party, internal divisions, and rising pressure from farmers over his plans to maintain ties with Taiwan. (Compiled by Steven Grattan and Brendan O'Boyle; Editing by Marguerita Choy)

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